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The CS Concept Inventory Quiz Show

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SIGCSE '15: Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 669 - 670

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Abstract

This session is a chance for researchers studying concept inventories (CIs)--low-cost assessments highlighting student misconceptions in a field--and CS education practitioners to communicate about advances in concept inventories in an engaging and utterly ridiculous way.

We use a "quiz show" format to present CI items from various authors' work across the computing curriculum. On each question, audience members and volunteer contestants consider their own response and guess students' common responses. Then, they see how authentic student data illustrate the misconceptions these items probe.

The session's goal is three-fold: educate practitioners about recent results in concept inventory research that may suggest surprising trends in student learning, popularize concept inventories as a tool in research and practice, and collect the audience's expert responses to concept inventory items.

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Ali MGhosh SRao PDhegaskar RJawort SMedler AShi MDasgupta S(2023)Taking Stock of Concept Inventories in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewProceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3568813.3600120(397-415)Online publication date: 7-Aug-2023
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The CS Concept Inventory Quiz Show
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education

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SIGCSE '15: Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

February 2015

766 pages

ISBN:9781450329668

DOI:10.1145/2676723

General Chairs:
Adrienne Decker
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Kurt Eiselt
University of British Columbia
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Program Chairs:
Carl Alphonce
University at Buffalo
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Jodi Tims
Baldwin Wallace College

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Ali MGhosh SRao PDhegaskar RJawort SMedler AShi MDasgupta S(2023)Taking Stock of Concept Inventories in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewProceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3568813.3600120(397-415)Online publication date: 7-Aug-2023
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