Explaining program code: Giving students the answer helps - But only just

ICER'11 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE 2011 International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 93-99

  Simon, ^a   Snowdon, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

assessment; code explaining questions; introductory programming; multiple choice

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CODE FRAGMENTS; CODE-EXPLAINING QUESTIONS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; MULTIPLE CHOICE; MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS; PROGRAM CODE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 80053337576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2016911.2016931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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