One of the objectives of software engineering education is to make students to learn essential teamwork skills. This is done by having the students work in groups for course assignments. Student team composition plays a vital role in this, as it significantly affects learning outcomes, what is learned, and how. The study presented in this paper aims to better understand the student team composition in software engineering education and investigate the factors affecting it in the international software engineering education context. Those factors should be taken into consideration by software engineering teachers when they design group work assignments in their courses. In this paper, the initial findings of the ongoing Action research study are presented. The results give some identified principles that should be considered when designing student team composition in software engineering courses.

翻译：软件工程教育的目标之一是让学生掌握必要的团队协作技能。这通过让学生以小组形式完成课程作业来实现。学生团队构成在此过程中发挥着至关重要的作用，因为它显著影响学习成果、所学内容及学习方式。本文旨在深入理解软件工程教育中的学生团队构成，并探究在跨国软件工程教育背景下影响团队构成的因素。软件工程教师在设计课程中的小组作业时，应将这些因素纳入考量。本文展示了正在进行中的行动研究的初步发现，其结果归纳出在设计软件工程课程的学生团队构成时需遵循的一些基本原则。