CSTA - Day 3

Took a few more notes today. Really enjoying this conference again. Definitely recommend it!

Feedback for wrong answers in on-line assessment

• Diane Dowling, Raspberry Pi - research from Cambridge University

• "self-marking" - 1200 questions!!!! (Python, Java, C#, VB)  mc only

• Online textbook with examples and concept pages

• https://adacomputerscience.org/ 

• Feedback 

  • Monthly report of wrong answers that don't have feedback yet

  • Pick common errors/misconceptions and then write feedback for that answer

• Hint 1 is a link to glossary terms

• Hint 2 is a clarification of the question

• Use of AI to mark questions with free text responses

Create Task

• Purpose = why, Function = how

• Students wrote too much -- even if they told them three correct inputs, if they said one that was incorrect -- NO point