Quantitative Assessment of All-Class Project-based Undergraduate Course on Graduates Career

摘要

The process of creating innovative technology applications is shifting to smaller development teams of entrepreneurial minded individuals who use a dynamic landscape of tools and much creativity. This new work environment calls for novel methods to best prepare its work force. In this paper we describe an All-Class Project-based Undergraduate Course as one possible effective approach and present the results of a survey to quantitatively measure the effect of the course on preparing the students and graduates for this new work environment. We also describe the course design, the hypothesis of effect, the survey design, the data collection, and analysis. Based on the participants' responses and the quantitative analysis presented in this paper, we confirmed quantitatively that the course has achieved its goal of preparing our undergraduates for the ever changing and challenging environment for developing technology applications and services. Overall, they believe that the impact on their career is worth the "value of contribution" they have exercised and estimated.