Integrating technology into computer science examinations

  • Authors:
  • David V. Mason;Denise M. Woit

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Ftreet, Toronto, Ontario;School of Computer Science, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Ftreet, Toronto, Ontario

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

On-line programming tests and examinations were administered to approximately 120 first year computer science students in order to evaluate their practical skills. We describe our motivation for on-line testing, outline the technical details of our closed testing environment, and present our observations about student performance. We also compare the effectiveness of on-line tests versus conventional tests, report the problems we encountered and our solutions, relate student opinion regarding the on-line testing experiment, and present some insights gained by this experiment.