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Recommended Citation: Ceccucci, W.  An Alternative Testing Strategy for Advanced Programming Courses.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2005, v 22 (Columbus OH): §2343. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 4(89). ISSN: 1545-679X.)
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An Alternative Testing Strategy for Advanced Programming Courses

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Wendy Ceccucci    [a1] [a2]
Information Systems Management, School of Business
Quinnipiac University    [u1] [u2]
Hamden, Connecticut, USA    [c1] [c2]

The traditional methodologies for evaluating student learning have been either a hand-written exam, usually in the form of multiple choice questions, or a take home program. These methods both have limitations which make it difficult to accurately measure a student’s ability to apply the material learned to design and develop a program. An alternative testing strategy would be to let each student develop a take-home program exam for another student in the class. This evaluation strategy would allow students to uniquely apply the material learned. While developing their own programs, students would gain a better perspective of the limitations of their current knowledge.

Keywords: assessment, testing, exams, programming assessment, advanced programming

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