Using on-computer exams to ensure beginning students' programming competency

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Using on-computer exams to ensure beginning students' programming competency

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin archive
Volume 32 , Issue 4 (December 2000) table of contents

Pages: 53 - 56

Year of Publication: 2000

ISSN:0097-8418

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Norman Jacobson

Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The first programming course at UC Irvine has traditionally used graded programming assignments to assess students' programming competence and readiness to undertake the programming required in the next course. Problems with this approach led to replacing the assignments with on-computer programming exams. Several improvements in the course and its ability to reliably meet its goals have resulted.

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	1	[1] "ICS 21 Spring 2000 Course Reference," at ¿http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jacobson/21S00CourseRef.html¿.
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CITED BY 3

	João Paulo Barros , Luís Estevens , Rui Dias , Rui Pais , Elisabete Soeiro, Using lab exams to ensure programming practice in an introductory programming course, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.35 n.3, September 2003
	Norman Jacobson , Suzanne K. Schaefer, Pair programming in CS1: overcoming objections to its adoption, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.40 n.2, June 2008
	Pari Delir Haghighi , Judy Sheard, Summative Computer Programming Assessment Using Both Paper and Computer, Proceeding of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation, p.67-75, May 14, 2005