Holistic assessment criteria - Applying SOLO to programming projects

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 66, Issue , 2007, Pages 155-162

  Thompson, Errol ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assessment; Criterion based assessment; Programming

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; CRITERION-BASED ASSESSMENT; PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS; PROGRAMMING PROJECTS;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869141593     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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