Agile Processes
Pair Learning
General Topics
OpenSeminar
PairEval

Agile Education Techniques

Agile software development techniques are an emerging technology that communication, collaboration, and feedback among all stakeholders in a software project. In the education domain, the highly collaborative nature of agile techniques provides a natural avenue for knowledge sharing, collaborative problem solving, and creating a sense of community among students.

This page provides links to a number of academic papers on agile techniques, such as pair programming, as well as open web resources for teaching the agile process.

Agile Software Development Processes

• Berenson, S., Slaten, K.M., Williams, L., Collaboration through Agile Software Development Practices: Student Interviews and Lab Observations, NCSU Technical Report, TR-2004-12, April 26, 2004.
• Williams, Laurie and Upchurch, Richard.  Extreme Programming for Software Engineering Education?,  2001 Frontiers in Education, Las Vegas, NV, October 2001.

Pair Learning

• Katira, Neha, advisor: Laurie Williams, Understanding the Compatibility of Pair Programmers, North Carolina State Unviersity Master's Thesis, Novermber, 2004.
• Katira, Neha, Williams, Laurie, Wiebe, Eric, Miller, Carol, Balik, Suzanne, Gehringer, Ed, On Understanding Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2004, pp. 7-11.
• Ho, C., Slaten, K., Williams, L., and Berenson, S., Examining the Impact of Pair Programming on Female Students, NCSU Technical Report, TR-2004-20, June 17, 2004.
• Hanks, B., McDowell, C., Draper, D., Krnjajic, M., Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGSCE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, June, 2004, pp. 176-180.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Miller, C., Balik, S., Ferzli, M., Petlick, M., Pair Learning: With an Eye Toward Future Success, Extreme Programming/Agile Universe 2003.
• McDowell, C., Hanks, B., Werner, L., Experimenting with Pair Programming in the Classroom Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2003, pp. 60-64.
• McDowell, C., Werner, L., Bullock, H.E., Fernald, J., The Impact of Pair Programming on Student Performance, Perception and Persistence, Procedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '03), May 3-10, 2003, pp. 602-607.
• Ferzli, M., Wiebe, E., Williams, L., Paired Programming Project: Focus Groups with Teaching Assistants and Students, NCSU Technical Report, TR-2002-16, November 25, 2002.
• Williams, L., Yang, K., Wiebe, E., Ferzli, M., Miller, C., Pair Programming in an Introductory Computer Science Course:  Initial Results and Recommendations, OOPSLA Educator's Symposium 2002, November 2002.
• Baheti, P., Williams, L., Gehringer, E., Stotts, D., Exploring Pair Programming in Distributed Object-Oriented Team Projects, OOPSLA Educator's Symposium 2002, November 2002.
• Ferzli, M., Wiebe, E., Williams, L., Paired Programming Project: Focus Groups with Teaching Assistants and Students, NCSU Technical Report, TR-2002-16, November 25, 2002.
• Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Yang, K., Ferzli, M., Miller, C., In Support of Pair Programming in the Introductory Computer Science Course, Computer Science Education, September 2002.
• Baheti, P., Williams, L., Gehringer, E., Stotts, D., and Smith, J., Distributed Pair Programming: Empirical Studies and Supporting Environments, UNC-CH Technical Report TR02-010, March 15, 2002.
• Bevan, J., Werner, L., McDowell, C, Guidelines for the Use of Pair Programming in a Freshman Programming Class, Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T '02), February 25-27, 2002, pp. 100-107.
• McDowell, C., Wener, L., Bullock, H., Fernald, J., The Effects of Pair-Programming on Performance in an Introductory Programming Course, Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February, 2002, pp. 38-42.
• Williams, Laurie, Kessler, Robert R., Experimenting with Industry's "Pair-Programming" Model in the Computer Science Classroom, Computer Science Education, March 2001. 
• Williams, Laurie.  Integrating Pair Programming into a Software Development Process, Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training 2001.  
• Williams, Laurie and Upchurch, Richard.  In Support of Student Pair Programming, 2001 SIGCSE Conference on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, NC, February 2001.
• Williams, Laurie and Kessler, Robert R.  The Effects of “Pair-Pressure” and “Pair-Learning” on Software Engineering Education.  Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training 2000.  

General Topics

• Borstler, J. Carrington, D. Hislop, G.W. Lisack, S. Olson, K. Williams, L. Teaching PSP: challenges and lessons learned, IEEE Software, Sept/Oct 2002.  
• George, B., Mansour, M., Williams, L., A multidisciplinary virtual team, 14th international conference on college teaching and learning, 2002.
• Kessler, Robert R. and Williams, Laurie, If This Is What It's Really Like, Maybe I Better Major in English":
• Williams, L. But, isn't that cheating?  Frontiers in Education Conference Faculty Fellow, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual , Volume: 2, 1999.Integrating Realism into a Sophomore Software Engineering Course, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 1999. 
• Williams, Laurie, Instilling a Defect Prevention Philosophy, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 1998. 
• Williams, Laurie, Adjusting the Instruction of the Personal Software Process to Improve Student Participation, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 1997. 

Resources

OpenSeminar - "OpenSeminar is an open courseware platform that enables professors from different universities to work collaboaratively to create an online seminar and the custome it to the needs of their own students."

• Resources for teaching Agile Software Development may be found through the OpenSeminar topics under the Software Engineering tract.

PairEval - The Pair Eval system was developed at North Carolina State University to aid professors in the Computer Science program who employ pair programming or group work in their classes. The system provides a means for instructors and TAs to set up and manage pairs and groups with as little difficulty as possible. The system also allows students to provide peer evaluations of their partners’ performances during group or paired assignments.

The creation of this site was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 00305917

All website content © NCSU, Laurie Williams, 2002-2004. This page last updated: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:56 AM