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Integrating technology into computer science examinations

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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.

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      SIGCSE '98: Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
      March 1998
      396 pages
      ISBN:0897919947
      DOI:10.1145/273133

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