Evaluating a new exam question: Parsons problems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 113-124

  Denny, Paul ^a   Luxton Reilly, Andrew ^a   Simon, Beth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Code writing; CS1; Exam questions; Parsons problems; Tracing

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CODE WRITING; CS1; EXAM QUESTIONS; PARSONS PROBLEMS; TRACING;

EID: 59249098709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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