E.: Improving Learning and Soft Skill using Project Oriented Learning in Software Engineering Courses

We present a study that identifies student behavior, development of soft skills and learning improvement during a project oriented software engineering course at the B. Sc. Level. Assessment of behaviour characterized as soft skills and knowledge when students work in a collaborative way is hard to achieve, but useful for effective tutoring. We contribute to constructing a strategy for applying self-assessment on collaborative actions that take place in the classroom, assuming that such actions are the manifestation of the learning process. Project Oriented Learning (POL) considers that students will work on a single guiding thread, or project, for an entire course. We present a research trend that allows the process to be managed, as well as three years of in-class results