%0 Conference Paper %1 Wig07 %A Wiggberg, Mattias %B Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88 %C Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia %D 2007 %I Australian Computer Society, Inc. %K case %P 137--148 %T Computer Science Students' Experiences of Decision Making in Project Groups %U http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2449323.2449338 %X This paper describes a study intended to understand the ways in which students experience the process of decision-making in computer science student projects. It also investigates the ways the student team works to make decisions. The empirical setting for the study is a semester-long project with 22 final year computer science students. It is a qualitative study where data are gathered using interviews and analyzed using phenomenography. Six categories have been identified describing how students experience the process of decision-making in computer science projects. The level of sophistication differs between the categories. The first describes an experience of decision-making as individual decisions too small and unimportant to be handled by anyone other than the individual. At the other end is the experience of decision-making as a democratic process involving both the full group and the context in which the group acts. The other four categories are situated between these two extremes. %@ 978-1-920682-69-9

@inproceedings{Wig07, abstract = {This paper describes a study intended to understand the ways in which students experience the process of decision-making in computer science student projects. It also investigates the ways the student team works to make decisions. The empirical setting for the study is a semester-long project with 22 final year computer science students. It is a qualitative study where data are gathered using interviews and analyzed using phenomenography. Six categories have been identified describing how students experience the process of decision-making in computer science projects. The level of sophistication differs between the categories. The first describes an experience of decision-making as individual decisions too small and unimportant to be handled by anyone other than the individual. At the other end is the experience of decision-making as a democratic process involving both the full group and the context in which the group acts. The other four categories are situated between these two extremes.}, acmid = {2449338}, added-at = {2014-10-28T10:14:43.000+0100}, address = {Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia}, author = {Wiggberg, Mattias}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29996ba79ea1914cd512f71c1032ba9ef/juheikki}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88}, description = {Computer science students' experiences of decision making in project groups}, interhash = {df9e7e354363b61bac851124d5245788}, intrahash = {9996ba79ea1914cd512f71c1032ba9ef}, isbn = {978-1-920682-69-9}, keywords = {case}, location = {Koli National Park, Finland}, numpages = {12}, pages = {137--148}, publisher = {Australian Computer Society, Inc.}, series = {Koli Calling '07}, timestamp = {2014-10-28T10:14:43.000+0100}, title = {Computer Science Students' Experiences of Decision Making in Project Groups}, url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2449323.2449338}, year = 2007 }