Reviewing CS1 exam question content

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 631-636

  Petersen, Andrew ^a   Craig, Michelle ^a   Zingaro, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CS1; Exams; Novice programming

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MECHANISM; ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE; CODE-WRITING; CS1; EXAM QUESTIONS; EXAMS; NORTH AMERICAN; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; POOR PERFORMANCE; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79954427991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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