An empirical study on the educational effects of a course in Method Engineering for Information systems

  • Authors:
  • Karel Lemmen;Fred Mulder;Sjaak Brinkkemper

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Engineering, Open University of The Netherlands, P.O. Box 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlandskarel.lemmen@ou.nl;TSM Business School, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlandsf.mulder@tsm.utwente.nl;Baan Company R&D, Software Engineering Process Group, P.O. Box 143, 3770 AC Barneveld, The Netherlandssbrinkkemper@baan.nl

  • Venue:
  • Education and Information Technologies
  • Year:
  • 1999

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Method Engineering (ME)^1facilitates the use of situation-specific methods for information systems development (ISD). We have studied the educational effects of ME by monitoring the process of students experiencing ME. First we describe the course of the Open University of The Netherlands that introduces ME. We then elaborate on the specifics of ME and present results related to the learning process of a population of over 70 students having professional experience in ISD already. In this paper we concentrate on some entry and exit level characteristics of the students and the feasibility and reproducibility of ME in a practical case study done by the students.