Poster: Are our students engaged in their studies?: Professional engagement vs. study engagement

Arnon Sturm, Timothy C. Lethbridge

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Abstract

Engagement has been shown to contribute to students' success. We used an NSSE-like survey and interviews to examine engagement of students registered in software engineering and information system engineering at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The survey showed BGU students had generally lower engagement in comparison to US students except for in collaborative learning. BGU students lean towards perceiving their studies as a means for professional success rather than for traditional academic success. We attribute the differences between the students and their US counterparts to differences in culture and the age of digital media that allows for multiple ways of learning beyond the university.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages149-150
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356633
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 May 2018
Event40th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden
Duration: 27 May 20183 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference40th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Country/TerritorySweden
CityGothenburg
Period27/05/183/06/18

Keywords

  • NSSE
  • Student engagement
  • Student motivation
  • Survey

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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