Automated Assessment and Experiences of Teaching Programming

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 5-

  Higgins, Colin A ^a   Gray, Geoffrey ^a   Symeonidis, Pavlos ^a   Tsintsifas, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer based assessment; formative and summative assessment; Human Factors; Measurement; online assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER-BASED ASSESSMENT; FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT; ONLINE ASSESSMENT;

TEACHING;

EID: 33749320254     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1163405.1163410     Document Type: Article

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