Over-confidence and confusion in using bloom for programming fundamentals assessment

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 147-151

  Gluga, Richard ^a   Kay, Judy ^a   Lister, Raymond ^b   Kleitman, Sabina ^c   Lever, Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

assessment; bloom; competence; confidence; CS1 2; learning progression; maturity; pedagogy; programming

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; BLOOM; COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE; CS1/2; LEARNING PROGRESSION; MATURITY; PEDAGOGY;

BLOOMS (METAL); CURRICULA; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84858957288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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