The Personal Software Process (PSP) is an individual process where its main goal is to help software engineers to measure and to improve their own productivity. PSP courses usually are given to practitioners; nevertheless it has started to be taught in bachelor’s and master’s degree programs too. In this work, we present a study of the PSP under an academic setting; where the following elements are analyzed: Size and effort precision estimates, product quality and productivity. Results shown suggest a partial improvement regarding size and effort precision estimates; an important decrease, by a factor of 6.6, with respect of defect density; and an average productivity of 53 source lines of code (SLOC) per hour.
