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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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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 30, Issue 1
      Mar. 1998
      376 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/274790
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      • cover image ACM Conferences
        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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