Abstract
This paper introduces a sports day for programming, a one-day workshop, that includes ideation, design, implementation, peer review, and a Eurovision style finale. It is a summative assessment introduced to an introductory programming course for the degree Creative Technology.
While the course includes both formative and summative assessment in tutorials as is common programming courses, both students and teaching team felt that students lacked programming experience to be properly prepared for their final project. Rather than adding another assessment or projects, we developed the sports day. The term sports day stresses the competitive element, the team aspect, and also that it includes different disciplines, namely ideation, design, implementation, code review and presentation.
This paper explains how this setup was developed to suit the educational philosophy of the degree, how it is implemented, and reports on experiences and evaluations of this annual event.
While the course includes both formative and summative assessment in tutorials as is common programming courses, both students and teaching team felt that students lacked programming experience to be properly prepared for their final project. Rather than adding another assessment or projects, we developed the sports day. The term sports day stresses the competitive element, the team aspect, and also that it includes different disciplines, namely ideation, design, implementation, code review and presentation.
This paper explains how this setup was developed to suit the educational philosophy of the degree, how it is implemented, and reports on experiences and evaluations of this annual event.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CSERC '20 |
| Subtitle of host publication | the 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, Virtual Event, The Netherlands, 19-20 October, 2020 |
| Editors | Dave R. Stikkolorum, Ebrahim Rahimi |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY |
| Publisher | ACM SIGCOMM |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-8872-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 22 Mar 2021 |
| Event | 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC 2020 - Virtual Conference Duration: 19 Oct 2020 → 20 Oct 2020 Conference number: 9 |
Conference
| Conference | 9th Computer Science Education Research Conference, CSERC 2020 |
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| Abbreviated title | CSERC 2020 |
| City | Virtual Conference |
| Period | 19/10/20 → 20/10/20 |
Keywords
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