Evaluating programming ability in an introductory computer science course

There are numerous ways to evaluate student programming ability, all of which have benefits and drawbacks. In this paper we discuss how we have combined a number of those evaluation techniques to assess student programming ability in an introductory computer science course and statistically analyze the relationships of student performance using the different evaluation techniques. Keywords Programming ability, programming evaluation, introductory computer science, collaborative learning.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: A. T. Chamillard, Kim A. Braun
• Keywords: Education, Evaluation Techniques, Keywords Programming Ability, SIGCSE 2000, Student Programming Ability