Um modelo para avaliar a eficácia do uso de projetos FLOSS no ensino de Engenharia de Software: uma proposta baseada em análise de conteúdo.

Abstract

Context: The software industry’s growing demand for qualified professionals highlights the importance and need for valuing EES in the training of graduates from higher education courses in the area of Computing. Educators are continually challenged to keep up with emerging trends in the area, to identify appropriate techniques and incorporate them into their software engineering disciplines, in order to promote the development of skills and competences that guarantee graduates of courses in the area of Computing an education that reconciles the learning of concepts, processes, techniques and tools provided in the academic environment with the needs and best practices of the software industry. Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) provide an opportunity for students and professors of undergraduate courses to work the content of the software engineering discipline into realistic projects, which bring a close real-world experience the demands of the world of work. Problem: One of the challenges associated with the use of FLOSS in the EES is how the educator can evaluate the chosen project as a teaching and learning resource, as well as its effectiveness for the pedagogical objective proposed by the activity or discipline. It is relevant to use evaluation methods or models that allow the teacher to measure and evaluate the results from his/her choice, according to the learning requirements necessary after the conclusion of the activity or discipline. Objective: This work proposes the creation of a model to evaluate the effectiveness of using FLOSS projects in the teaching of Software Engineering. The proposed model is based on the mapping of evaluation criteria that were structured in order to facilitate the analysis of the scope of the pedagogical objectives planned for the curricular component. Research Method: Through Content Analysis, the most relevant technical and sociotechnicalskills and abilities were identified for the Software Engineering discipline, according to the main curricular guidelines in Brazil and abroad, and aspects of influence were investigated both technical and pedagogical, of the use of FLOSS projects in teaching the discipline of software engineering. Based on this information, the evaluation criteria were defined and, through a theoretical dialogue, their relations were identified in order to propose a Model for evaluating the effectiveness of the use of FLOSS projects in the tea ching of Software Engineering. Contributions: The use of methods to evaluate FLOSS projects at the EES proves to be a viable solution for the real development of skills and abilities associated with theoretical and practical aspects of software engineering, impor tant in the training of professionals from the various strands of Computing area. The use of methods to evaluate FLOSS projects in the EES can encourage the inclusion of educators in the FLOSS ecosystem, in addition to offering new forms of evaluation to those who recognize and adopt such projects in the classroom.