Expertiza: students helping to write an OOD text

  • Authors:
  • Edward F. Gehringer;Luke M. Ehresman;Dale J. Skrien

  • Affiliations:
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC;Colby College, Waterville, ME

  • Venue:
  • Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Students in a masters-level object-oriented design class participated in several exercises related to improving a not-yet-published textbook in object-oriented design. Each student was asked, sometime during the semester, to improve an explanation from the book, to make up an example of a concept described in the book, and to create an exercise for a chapter in the book. Their contributions were peer-reviewed by other members of the class. A strong majority of the students (29 of 49) indicated that they learned a lot from doing the assignments, and 27 of 49 of them agreed or strongly agreed that the assignments were enjoyable-a good measure of their engagement. The textbook author found the feedback very helpful in revising the textbook.