Synthesis and analysis of automatic assessment methods in CS1: Generating intelligent MCQs

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 495-499

  Traynor, Des ^a   Paul Gibson, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Assessment; First Year Programming; Program Comprehension

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

ASSESSMENT; FIRST YEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQ); PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 20444468943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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