Testing Programming Skills with Multiple Choice Questions
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Multiple choice questions are a convenient and popular means of testing beginning students in programming courses. However, they are qualitatively different from exam questions. This paper reports on a study into which types of multiple choice programming questions discriminate well on a final exam, and how well they predict exam scores.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Informatics in Education
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004