Developing a validated assessment of fundamental CS1 concepts

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 97-101

  Tew, Allison Elliott ^a   Guzdial, Mark ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; CS1; Programming; Validity

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS; PROGRAMMING ABILITY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77952162010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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