PeerWise: Students sharing their multiple choice questions

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 51-58

  Denny, Paul ^a   Hamer, John ^a   Luxton Reilly, Andrew ^a   Purchase, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated; Contributing student; MCQ; Peer assessment; Peerwise; Question test bank

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED; CONTRIBUTING STUDENT; MCQ; PEER ASSESSMENT; PEERWISE; QUESTION TEST BANK;

STUDENTS;

EID: 59249085136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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