Introducing and Evaluating Exam Wrappers in CS2
| Autor: | Daniel Zingaro, Danny Heap, Diane Horton, Michelle Craig |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Reflection (computer programming)
Multimedia Computer science Qualitative evidence education 05 social sciences 050301 education Metacognition 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Test (assessment) Formative assessment Summative assessment 020204 information systems ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Mathematics education 0503 education computer |
| Zdroj: | SIGCSE |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2839509.2844561 |
| Popis: | In addition to their role as a summative measure, midterm tests can provide formative feedback that can be used by students to identify areas of weakness and adjust studying approaches. Unfortunately, low levels of test pickup often preclude this type of learning from tests. Even when students do collect their marked tests, it is unclear how much they reflect on or learn from the feedback.Exam wrappers have been designed and used in other sciences to promote reflection on tests and improve study practices. In this paper, we introduce exam wrappers into a CS course. We outline our adoption of exam wrappers, and illustrate how we as educators can learn from student responses on exam wrappers. We also describe an experiment comparing three styles of exam wrapper. Although it did not find significant differential impact on exam scores, we find, for all wrapper styles, improved test pickup rates and qualitative evidence that students successfully reflect on past behaviour and recognize improved study strategies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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