The Canterbury QuestionBank: building a repository of multiple-choice CS1 and CS2 questions

Authors:
Kate Sanders;Marzieh Ahmadzadeh;Tony Clear;Stephen H. Edwards;Mikey Goldweber;Chris Johnson;Raymond Lister;Robert McCartney;Elizabeth Patitsas;Jaime Spacco
Affiliations:
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI USA;Shiraz University of Technology, Shiraz, Iran;Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand;Virginia Inst. of Technology, Blacksburg, VA USA;Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio USA;University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI USA;University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia;University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA;University of Toronto, Toronto ON Canada;Knox College, Galesburg, IL USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the ITiCSE working group reports conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education-working group reports
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we report on an ITiCSE-13 Working Group that developed a set of 654 multiple-choice questions on CS1 and CS2 topics, the Canterbury QuestionBank. We describe the questions, the metadata we investigated, and some preliminary investigations of possible research uses of the QuestionBank. The QuestionBank is publicly available as a repository for computing education instructors and researchers.