HUNG, MING HSUAN
National Central University of Learning and Instruction Student
Email：minghsuan0917@gmail.com
CHANG, PEI FEN
National Central University of Learning and Instruction Associate Professor
Email：chang.peifen@gmail.com
YANG, JIE CHI
National Central University of Network Learning Technology Professor
Email：yang@cl.ncu.edu.tw
Abstract
International engineering education values the cultivation of collaborative problem solving (CPS) skills. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the learning effectiveness which implementing the CPS approach to interdisciplinary capstone course within the Department of Computer Science of a university of northern Taiwan. Results of pre-test and post-test analysis on the Teamwork Competency Test (TWCT) indicate that students enhance the highest CPS competency in the teamwork skills. The second highest improvement is their abilities to compare available software and tools to solve the problems they encountered. Finally, this research will provide suggestions and future directions regarding future improvement for the teaching and assessment in order to further understand students’ learning process within the capstone course.
Keywords :collaborative problem solving, capstone course, interdisciplinary