Measuring, changing, and measuring changes in: students' attitudes toward and understanding of software engineering process

The instrument, is used in conjunction with the standard Felder Learning Styles Survey and the Academic Locus of Control Scale to analyze students' attitudes toward and understanding of software engineering process, to gauge changes in both of these as a result of taking software engineering courses and to correlate both initial attitude and knowledge with factors such as preferred learning style and attitude towards university education. The purpose of the instrument is to evaluate the relative efficacies of different approaches toward teaching software engineering process/best practice. We have successfully used the instrument in evaluating a number of different approaches to SE/Best Practice education and are developing a community of users.