A Qualitative Study of Experienced Course Coordinators’ Perspectives on Assessment in Introductory Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors

@article{Riese2022AQS,
  title={A Qualitative Study of Experienced Course Coordinators’ Perspectives on Assessment in Introductory Programming Courses for Non-CS Majors},
  author={Emma Riese and Olle B{\"a}lter},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)},
  year={2022},
  volume={22},
  pages={1 - 29},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:247631522}
}
This study explores the instructors’ perspective on assessment within the context of introductory programming courses offered to non-computer-science majors at a public tuition-free state-funded university in a Nordic country and sees that this implementation of assessment could be difficult to manage for a single faculty member who is not necessarily responsible for the grading.
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