Integrating technology into computer science examinations

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 opinionregarding the on-line testing experiment, and present some insights gained by this experiment.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: David V. Mason, Denise M. Woit
• Keywords: Closed Testing Environment, Education, On-line Programming Tests, On-line Testing, SIGCSE 1998