Developing a pre- And post-course concept inventory to gauge operating systems learning

SIGCSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 103-108

  Webb, Kevin C ^a   Taylor, Cynthia ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept inventory; Misconceptions; Operating systems

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CURRICULA;

CONCEPT INVENTORIES; EXAM QUESTIONS; MISCONCEPTIONS; OPERATING SYSTEMS COURSE; PEER INSTRUCTION; SCENARIO DESCRIPTION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84899749161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2538862.2538886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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