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COMPASS: a CS program assessment project

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Adel Abunawass,

Will Lloyd,

Edwin RudolphAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 127 - 131

https://doi.org/10.1145/1007996.1008031

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In this paper, we describe our Computer Science Program Assessment (COMPASS) project. COMPASS uses open-source software tools to support the development and analysis of course portfolios. We use the portfolios internally to improve the quality of our undergraduate computer science curriculum, and externally to satisfy the requirements of program and university accrediting agencies. COMPASS makes it easy for instructors to build good portfolios and for the department to review and analyze them.

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ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2004

296 pages

ISBN:1581138369

DOI:10.1145/1007996

Conference Chair:
Roger Boyle
University of Leeds, UK
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University of Leeds, UK
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Amruth Kumar
Ramapo College of NJ

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 3
September 2004
280 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1026487
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