Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Evaluating individual contribution toward group software engineering projects
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Large team projects in software engineering courses
Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Competency matrices for peer assessment of individuals in team projects
Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education
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Group-based software engineering projects are an important part of Computing curricula. Evaluating the overall performance of the group on such a project is fairly straightforward; however, fair assessment of individual contributions to group-based projects remains a challenging problem. In an attempt to overcome this challenge, the web-based task management system, Issue-Tracker, has been adopted for evaluating a semester-long project involving an entire software engineering class. While Issue-Tracker appeared to be a useful tool for managing the overall project, the question of its effectiveness in evaluating the individual performance of a student remained. As an initial evaluation of Issue-Tracker's effectiveness, a subjective comparison of Issue-Tracker and an alternative grading method, competency matrices for peer assessment, was provided in previous work by the authors. This paper provides an objective comparison of the Issue-Tracker and competency matrix approaches by computing Spearman's and Pearson's correlation coefficients to see if scores obtained using the two methods are significantly correlated.