Holistic assessment criteria: applying SOLO to programming projects

Authors:
Errol Thompson
Affiliations:
Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Venue:
ACE '07 Proceedings of the ninth Australasian conference on Computing education - Volume 66
Year:
2007

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Abstract

How you define your assessment criteria should influence the way the students approach the assignment. Does this mean that if we use a holistic criterion-based assessment strategy that students will look more holistically at the topic rather than focussing on the pieces for which they think they can gain satisfactory marks? A holistic set of assessment criteria for programming assignment work based on the SOLO taxonomy is presented, and reflections on the use of this approach over three years are discussed.