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				Criterion Referenced Assessment for Programming
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				Is introducing sustainability sustainable?
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Criterion referenced assessment for programming

Dr Diane Corney
Lecturer | School of Software Engineering and Data Communications| Faculty of Information Technology

Dr Diane Corney

Diane Corney is a lecturer within the School of Software Engineering and Data Communications. Diane has been teaching students in the area of computer programming for a number of years. This teaching has ranged across units in first year through to the postgraduate level. Her area of expertise is in programming languages and compilers.

Richard Thomas
Lecturer | School of Software Engineering and Data Communications | Faculty of Information Technology

Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas is a lecturer within the School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, where he has taught a wide range of computer programming and software design units. Over the past six years, he has been implementing constructivist approaches to learning and has had significant success using problem-based learning to improve student outcomes. Richard’s programming and design course material is currently used at QUT, USQ and the University of Liverpool. He has won the Faculty of Information Technology’s Teaching Innovation award (2004) and Outstanding Contribution award (2001).

Project Summary

Programming units within the Faculty of IT have been slow to adopt Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) practices. This is due to the perception that it is difficult or impractical to apply CRA in the context of problems that are mainly quantitatively assessed. In this project we have developed a set of generic criteria that are applicable to programming tasks and describe both quantitative and qualitative expectations. We have applied these generic criteria with descriptions of standards (in the form of criteria sheets) to several programming assessment tasks. The examples are for programming tasks at different year levels in the course. These criteria sheets will be made available to unit coordinators who are teaching programming units, to help them to develop their own.

Download the project presentation.