RP-UML: uma arquitetura pedagógica para apoiar ensino-aprendizagem de modelagem de sistemas

Abstract

The difficulty of learning systems modeling with Unified Modeling Language diagrams (UML) has been addressed in studies related to the teaching of Software Engineering. Currently, these studies range from the most common mistakes during the learning of systems modeling to new and attractive approaches for teaching this subject. In this context, the objective of this work is to assist the teaching-learning process of software modeling through the use of a collaborative learning technique in Software Engineering disciplines. Thus, we present the RP-UML, a pedagogical architecture that encourages the development of group work skills through the Peer Review technique as a collaborative learning approach in a systems modeling course. So, we adopted a methodology based on action-research to conduct this study and the development of this artifact. For this, we conducted a diagnostic study in order to list concepts about the difficulty of learning UML. So, we conducted a case study to observe the adoption of the Peer Review technique throughout the systems modeling activity in undergraduate classrooms in a Software Engineering course. With that, it became possible to conceive the initial design of the RP-UML, instantiating its elements and developing a tool that can support the Peer review technique. Thus, we carried out a case study to observe the performance of RPUML during the teaching-learning of software modeling, verifying the pedagogical aspects of the performance of architecture and verifying the tool through a questionnaire based on the Acceptance Model of Technology (TAM).