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The Impact of Undergraduate Mentorship on Student Satisfaction and Engagement, Teamwork Performance, and Team Dysfunction in a Software Engineering Group Project
Mentorship schemes in software engineering education usually involve professional software engineers guiding and advising teams
of undergraduate students working collaboratively to develop a
software system. With or without mentorship, teams run the risk
of experiencing team dysfunction: a situation where lack of engagement, internal conflicts, and/or poor team management lead
to different assessment outcomes for individual team members and
overall frustration and dissatisfaction within the team. The paper
describes a mentorship scheme devised as part of a 33 week software engineering group project course, where the mentors were
undergraduate students who had recently completed the course
successfully and possessed at least a year’s experience as professional software engineers. We measure and discuss the impact the
scheme had on: (1) student satisfaction and engagement, (2) team
performance, and (3) team dysfunction