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Improving Capstone Team Outcomes through Dynamic Skill Matching and Preference Alignment

◐ medium · 2026-06-16intelligent-tutoring, edtech-platform, higher-ed, stem-education, personalized-learning, learning-analytics, student-experience, rag, llm

Team-based projects are a cornerstone of engineering and computing courses, but unstructured team formation often leads to poor project outcomes due to misaligned student interests and inadequate skill coverage. This paper introduces a novel, three-stage methodology for creating effective student teams by integrating student preferences with project skill requirements. Students complete a survey, an LLM analyzes project descriptions to extract skills, and a dynamic assignment algorithm matches students to projects. Preliminary evaluations show higher skill coverage and preference satisfaction compared to random or manual assignment, overcoming limitations of CATME Team-Maker.

  • LLM-driven team formation outperforms CATME Team-Maker for skill coverage and preference alignment in capstone courses.

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    • Citation

    Brandon Pardi, Garret Castro, Michael Pisman, Avash Adhikari, Santosh Chandrasekhar (2026). Improving Capstone Team Outcomes through Dynamic Skill Matching and Preference Alignment. arXiv:2606.15572. CSCI 2025 (12th International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).