A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers
Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
The PeerWise system of student contributed assessment questions
ACE '08 Proceedings of the tenth conference on Australasian computing education - Volume 78
Student use of the PeerWise system
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
PeerWise: students sharing their multiple choice questions
ICER '08 Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research
Coverage of course topics in a student generated MCQ repository
ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Koli '08 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research
Peerwise: replication study of a student-collaborative self-testing web service in a u.s. setting
Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
The quality of a PeerWise MCQ repository
Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 103
Tools for "contributing student learning"
ACM Inroads
Tools for "contributing student learning"
Proceedings of the 2010 ITiCSE working group reports
Uses of peer assessment in database teaching and learning
BNCOD'10 Proceedings of the 27th British national conference on Data Security and Security Data
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PeerWise is an online tool that involves students in the process of creating, sharing, answering and discussing multiple choice questions. Previous work has shown that students voluntarily use the large repository of questions developed by their peers as a source of revision for formal examinations -- and activity level correlates with improved exam performance. In this paper, we investigate the quality of the questions created by students in a large introductory programming course. The ability of students to assess question quality is also examined. We find that students do, very commonly, ask clear questions that are free from error and give the correct answers. Of the few questions we examined that contained errors, in all cases those errors were detected, and corrected by other students. We also report that students are effective judges of question quality, and are willing to use the judgements of their peers to decide which questions to answer. We include several case studies of questions that are representative of the kinds of questions in the repository and provide insight for instructors considering use of PeerWise in their classrooms.