Engaging students to work with self-assessment questions: a study of two approaches

We explored two approaches for encouraging introductory programming students to use the web-based, selfassessment system, QuizPACK. An "organizational" approach applied specially constructed classroom quizzes, while the "technical" approach introduced adaptive guidance. Our studies demonstrated that each of these caused a dramatic increase in system use. This approach could be useful in many other contexts, when an educationally beneficial system is underused by students.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ITICSE
• Authors: Peter Brusilovsky, Sergey A. Sosnovsky
• Keywords: Adaptive Guidance, Introductory Programming Students, ITICSE 2005, Selfassessment System