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Exploring Artifact Definitions in Project Management Education: A Case Study in a French Engineering School Cover

Exploring Artifact Definitions in Project Management Education: A Case Study in a French Engineering School

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Open Access
|Nov 2024

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Table 1

Learning Sequence Structure and Deliverables

Learning Sequence StructureDeliverables
The subject was presented in an amphitheater. But there were no specific instructions about group organization.
Students made their own groups of seven to eight people.
Groups worked independently from Monday to Thursday.
Teachers worked with groups once or twice during the week.
In the middle of the week, a new deliverable is presented to the students.
All deliverables had to be submitted by Thursday night.
On Friday morning, students had an oral presentation.
On Friday afternoon, there was a feedback session about the week. The subject is “teamwork”.
Project prototype must be built with ‘Meccano’ from ‘Meccano’ toy brand.
A report explaining the project (six pages maximum).
A report evaluating another group.
A video showing project prototype in operation (three minutes maximum).
An oral presentation of the project (five minutes maximum).
Figure 1

Examples: artifact types and related attributes (Impedovo et al., 2017, p. 22)

Table 2

Most frequent French words in the artifact category with at least five letters

Artifact Referenced (n=693)Letters in French WordFrequency (f)Percentage (%)
Wheelbarrow823634
‘Meccano’611817
Video59213
Pulley67911
Model/scale model/prototype6-8-9659
Report7325
Pulley system7254
Cardboard6152
File (contain all deliverables)771
Table 3

Most recurrent artifacts classified by artifact category (Impedovo et al., 2017)

Artifact Category
(# identified in coding)
Artifact
(# identified in coding by artifact category)
Intermediate object (86)Wheelbarrow (30), pulley (15), video (9), cardboard (9), model/scale model/prototype (7), ‘Meccano’ (7), pulley system (6), report (3)
Knowledge artifact (100)Wheelbarrow (30), pulley (23), model/scale model/prototype (13), pulley system (11), video (11), ‘Meccano’ (7), report (3)
Instructional artifact (112)wheelbarrow (31), pulley (21), model/scale model/prototype (15), ‘Meccano’ (12), video (12), pulley system (9), cardboard (9), report (3)
Epistemic artifact (98)wheelbarrow (31), pulley (18), model/scale model/prototype (12), video (11), cardboard (9), ‘Meccano’ (7), pulley system (7), report (3)
Technical object (242)wheelbarrow (122), pulley (72), ‘Meccano’ (48)
Language: English
Page range: 38 - 57
Submitted on: Jan 12, 2024
Accepted on: May 10, 2024
Published on: Nov 6, 2024
Published by: Virginia Tech
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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