Clues on Software Engineers Learning Styles
This work addresses the problem of tailoring teaching methods for software engineering students, but it is incremental as it applies an existing instrument to a specific domain.
The paper investigated learning styles of software engineering students using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to understand their preferences, finding that no single teaching technique suits all students, and applied these insights in two 4th-year capstone project courses.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has proved to be a useful instrument for understanding student learning preferences and has enable comparisons of the learning preferences for various personality types. Regarding learning styles, there is no one best combination of characteristics, since each preference has its own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is a fallacy to think that professors can devise a single teaching technique that would always appeal to all students at the same time. The ideas presented in this paper have been taken into account in two 4th year courses, named Software Requirements and Software Design in which the students develop their capstone projects. The results of this investigation may help college instructors to understanding the preferred leaning style of software engineers.