Reflections on 17 years of ICT Capstone Project Coordination: Effective Strategies for Managing Clients, Teams and Assessment
Reflections on 17 years of ICT Capstone Project Coordination: Effective Strategies for Managing Clients, Teams and Assessment
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ICT 顶点项目协调 17 年反思：管理客户、团队和评估的有效策略
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10.1145/3159450.3159584
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2018
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Nicole Herbert
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Nicole Herbert
许多本科信息通信技术学位的学生在学术监督下完成了一个基于团队的顶点项目。由外部客户提供的顶点项目促进了真实的体验式学习，但采购外部项目可能很困难，并且在学术环境中管理行业客户可能存在问题。Capstone项目还提供了专业技能发展的机会，以提高学生的就业能力，但要全面评估通用学习成果，需要评估的不仅仅是为客户创建的最终产品。团队合作可以对学生的学习产生积极的影响，但它是具有挑战性的，以确定一个评估过程，使形成性和总结性的评估，不需要一个学者沉浸在一个团队中，以评估个人的贡献。团队成员往往是有意义的信息的最佳来源，自我和同行评估通常被用作评估计划的一部分，但为了确保最终成绩的客观性和完整性，有必要将来自各种来源的数据关联起来。这份经验报告反映了一个以团队为基础的顶点项目方法，已经提供了17年，并提出了一些有效的战略，协调顶点项目更具挑战性的方面。
Many undergraduate ICT degrees culminate with students completing a team-based capstone project under academic supervision. Capstone projects provided by external clients facilitate authentic experiential learning, but sourcing external projects can be difficult, and there can be issues managing industry clients within an academic setting. Capstone projects also provide an opportunity for professional skill development to increase student employability, though to fully assess generic learning outcomes requires evaluating more than the final product created for the client. Teamwork can have a positive impact on student learning, however it is challenging to determine a process of assessment that enables formative and summative assessment that does not require an academic to immerse themselves within a team to evaluate an individual's contribution. Team members are often the best source of meaningful information, and self and peer assessment is commonly used as part of an assessment scheme, but to ensure the objectivity and integrity of the final grade it is necessary to correlate data from a variety of sources. This experience report reflects on a team-based capstone project approach that has been offered for 17 years and proposes some effective strategies for coordinating the more challenging aspects of capstone projects.