CS@UWG :: References

We found the following papers and websites to be helpful in building our assessment processes and tools. The first two papers listed are ones we have written to describe our assessment and COMPASS/db.

Papers

Abunawass, A., Lloyd, W., and Rudolph, E. "COMPASS: A Computer Science Program Assessment Project." Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2004), Leeds, UK.

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Abunawass, A., Lloyd, W., and Rudolph, E. "COMPASS: Computer Science Program Assessment." In Proceedings of the ACM Mid-Southeast Chapter Fall Conference 2003, Gatlinburg, TN. pp. 41.

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Blandford, D., and Hwang, D. "Five Easy but Effective Assessment Methods." In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (New York, 2003), ACM Press, pp. 41-44.

ACM DL DOI Citation

Estell, John. "The Faculty Course Assessment Report." From Proceedings of the Best Assessment Processes VII Symposium held at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre-Haute, Indiana.

Lister, R. and Leaney, J. "Introductory programming, criterion-referencing, and Bloom." In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (New York, 2003), ACM Press, pp. 143-147.

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Sanders, K. and McCartney, R. "Program Assessment Tools in Computer Science: A Report from the Trenches." In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (New York, 2003), ACM Press, pp. 31-35.

ACM DL DOI Citation

Accreditation

Computing Accreditation Commission of Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology: http://www.abet.org/
ABET Assessment Resources
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: http://www.sacs.org/

Curriculum

ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2001, Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Task Force Report: http://www.computer.org/education/cc2001
ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 1991, Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Task Force Report: http://www.computer.org/education/cc1991

Some Summaries of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives...

Software Tools

Moodle - A Free, Open-Source Course Management System for Online Learning: http://moodle.org/
phpESP - PHP Easy Survey Package: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/

Assessment Plan

Course Assessment

Goals & Outcomes

Reports

References

Papers

Accreditation

Curriculum

Some Summaries of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives...

Software Tools