On the Learnability of i*: Experiences from a New Teacher

Abstract. For accomplished users of goal modelling, the di culties experienced with learning the concepts, semantics and practical skills for applying the techniques are often distant memories. Teaching such approaches provides valuable insights into the learnability of the techniques. In this paper we discuss our experiences of teaching i⇤ goal modelling for the first time, as part of a requirements engineering module for undergraduate and and postgraduate students. More specifically, we describe a set of guidelines designed to help students produce i⇤ models more e↵ectively, and evaluate these using data from 134 coursework assignments. We make some suggestions to help i⇤ teachers convey these concepts and also provide some thoughts on how i⇤ as a technique could become more learnable.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: CAISE
• Authors: Amel Bennaceur, James Lockerbie, Jennifer Horkoff
• Keywords: CAISE 2015, Information Technology