School of Computing

Computing Education Group: Assessment

How Shall we assess This?

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Homepage: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/jec/assess/
Partners: Bill Fone, John English, Judy Sheard, Kirsti Ala-Mutka, Martin Dick, Petco Tsvetinov

With increasing class sizes in educational establishments worldwide, the practice of assessment is becoming a problematic issue; increasing numbers make it increasingly difficult to assess student attainment. This working group investigated current assessment practices, particularly the use of automated assessment, in computer science education.

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Selected publications:

  • How Shall We Assess This?. Janet Carter, John English, Kirsti Ala-Mutka, Martin Dick, William Fone, Ursula Fuller, and Judy Sheard. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 35(4):107-123, December 2003. (more details)

Project partners:

Bill Fone

Staffordshire University, UK

John English

University of Brighton, UK

Judy Sheard

Monash University, Australia

Kirsti Ala-Mutka

Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Martin Dick

Monash University, Australia

Petco Tsvetinov

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF

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Last Updated: 12/02/2012 03:32