Undergraduates' perspective on a pedagogical architecture to requirements engineering education
Thalia Santos de Santana, Taciana Novo Kudo, Renato F. Bulcão-Neto · 2023
The literature has revealed the misalignment between higher education and professional practice in Requirements Engineering (RE). An alternative approach to mitigate this problem is adopting a pedagogical architecture (PA), which structures and diversifies the pedagogical practice of RE theory. This paper presents the evaluation of a PA to the education on requirements specification and validation. Undergraduate students of three RE classes at a Brazilian public university experimented and evaluated, through a survey, the PA’s lesson plans, teaching materials, and practical activities. From the analysis of 153 responses, we have shown that a PA to RE education can contribute to aligning RE knowledge and essential hard and soft skills for graduating future requirements analysts.