SPLASH 2022
Mon 5 - Sat 10 December 2022 Auckland, New Zealand
Mon 5 Dec 2022 13:30 - 14:00 at Seminar Room G125 - Afternoon 1 Chair(s): Eli Tilevich

Teamwork is integral to any computer science curriculum because it provides students with experiences that mirror the industry. Some students are resistant to working in teams because of the perceived inequities. Assessing individual participation and team dynamics can provide faculty with valuable information to design and deploy interventions to improve students’ teamwork skills and help dysfunctional teams.

This work looks at the \textit{team harmony} experience of pairs in a large (~300 person) third-year Software Engineering class in a North American research-intensive university. For the last seven semesters, we asked students to regularly report their sense of equity relating to their contributions to group discussions, influence over task assignments, and overall contributions to their course project development.

Based on our analyses, four periods emerged: prior to COVID-19, during the transitional period as restrictions were applied due to the pandemic, during COVID-19, and after the acute COVID-19 period ended and restrictions were lifted. Overall, we saw that students experienced a decrease in team harmony during the transition to lockdown and that harmony recovered in subsequent semesters, with some measures gradually trending worse over time in the post-pandemic period (once the restrictions were lifted).

Mon 5 Dec

Displayed time zone: Auckland, Wellington change

13:30 - 15:00
Afternoon 1SPLASH-E at Seminar Room G125
Chair(s): Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech

The session is hybrid, with the first talk being virtual, and the second in-person. The physical venue G125 has video equipment for online presentation via airmeet. The SPLASH 2022 airmeet page is: https://tinyurl.com/splash2022virtual. Look for the SPLASH-E sessions there and bookmark them. For issues, use the airmeet chat if you are joining online, and look for the student volunteer Wang Chengpeng, if you in G125.

13:30
30m
Talk
Team Harmony before, during, and after COVID-19Virtual
SPLASH-E
Noa Heyl University of British Columbia, Elisa Baniassad University of British Columbia, Oluwakemi Ola University of British Columbia
DOI
14:00
30m
Talk
Expressions in Java: Essential, Prevalent, Neglected?In Person
SPLASH-E
Luca Chiodini USI Lugano, Igor Moreno Santos USI Lugano, Matthias Hauswirth USI Lugano
DOI
14:30
30m
Other
Discussion
SPLASH-E