The FCS1: A language independent assessment of CS1 knowledge

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 111-116

  Tew, Allison Elliott ^a   Guzdial, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; CS1; Programming; Validity

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS; CS EDUCATION; CS1; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE; LEARNING OUTCOME; PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PSEUDO-CODE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT LEARNING; VALIDITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; RATING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TESTING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 79954444426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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