Following the success of the five previous workshops on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET 2005, 2007--2010), this workshop will address issues related to RE education, both as part of a formal university degree and as ongoing skills training within the workplace. The workshop is intended to go much deeper than a surface discussion of curriculum issues and will examine specific ideas and techniques for teaching and assessing skills needed by an effective requirements engineer.

Workshop Themes

Curriculum design
Curriculum for undergraduate and graduate level RE studies
Mapping RE elements from the SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body Of Knowledge) to RE curricula
Identifying and incorporating specific RE related topics into the general curriculum and/or software engineering courses
Curriculum for industrial training programs
Techniques for teaching specific RE related skills
Creative methods for teaching stakeholder identification, requirements elicitation, negotiation and consensus building, requirements writing, and other critical RE skills
Specific tools, exercises, and assignments developed to support RE skills training
Assessment methods and practices of RE knowledge and skills
Which assessment method to use: exam, test, case study, essay, report, presentation, or something else?
Strategies for assessment of learning soft skills
What should students be able to do as a result of learning RE?
Methods of objectively measuring assessments
Effective pedagogical methods for teaching RE skills
Survey results related to topics such as the effectiveness of teaching methods, RE skills needed to be effective in industry, skill mismatches between graduating students and industry needs etc.
Studies into the effectiveness of requirements engineering educational practices
Experience reports including industrial training and university level curriculum