Testing Programming Skills with Multiple Choice Questions
Volume 3, Issue 2 (2004), pp. 161–178
Pub. online: 15 October 2004
Type: Article
Published
15 October 2004
15 October 2004
Abstract
Multiple choice questions are a convenient and popular means of testing beginning students in programming courses. However, they are qualitatively different from exam questions. This paper reports on a study into which types of multiple choice programming questions discriminate well on a final exam, and how well they predict exam scores.