Designing Divergent Thinking, Creative Problem Solving Exams
Wed 11 May 2022 21:05 - 21:10 at ICSE room 1-odd hours - Program Comprehension 3 Chair(s): Christina von Flach
Wed 25 May 2022 09:45 - 09:50 at Ballroom A - Papers 1: Teaching and Productivity Chair(s): Christoph Matthies
This experience report paper reports on case studies of courses that used final exams that involved creative problem solving to assess students’ ability to apply the material, and divergent thinking to ensure that each student’s exam was unique. We report on two senior-level software engineering courses, taught a total of five times across three semesters. We attempt to give enough information so that readers can adapt this method in their own courses. Our exams include built-in divergence properties, which are elements or decisions that lead students to more than one good answer. Based on our experience, divergent thinking, creative problem solving exams not only provide excellent assessments of student knowledge, but ensure the integrity of the exam process, even when students work without supervision. We developed this strategy during the pandemic when all courses were online, but find them to be better than our traditional exams and plan to keep using this strategy for in-person courses.
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12:00 - 13:00 | Teaching SE Skills 2SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training at ICSE room 3-even hours Chair(s): Christoph Matthies Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam | ||
12:00 5mTalk | Designing Divergent Thinking, Creative Problem Solving Exams SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:05 5mTalk | Reading to Write Code: An Experience Report of a Reverse Engineering and Modeling Course SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Brooke Kelsey Ryan University of California, Irvine, Adriana Meza Soria UC Irvine, Kaj Dreef University of California, Irvine, Andre van der Hoek University of California, Irvine DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:10 5mTalk | DevOps Education: An Interview Study of Challenges and Recommendations SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Marcelo Fernandes Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte, Samuel Ferino Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Anny Fernandes Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Eduardo Aranha Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:00 - 22:00 | Program Comprehension 3Technical Track / SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training / NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results at ICSE room 1-odd hours Chair(s): Christina von Flach Federal University of Bahia | ||
21:00 5mTalk | Supporting program comprehension by generating abstract code summary tree NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results Avijit Bhattacharjee University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan, Kevin Schneider University of Saskatchewan DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:05 5mTalk | Designing Divergent Thinking, Creative Problem Solving Exams SEET - Software Engineering Education and Training Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:10 5mTalk | Practitioners’ Expectations on Automated Code Comment Generation Technical Track Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, David Lo Singapore Management University, Zhiyuan Wan Zhejiang University, Qiuyuan Chen Zhejiang University, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:15 5mTalk | Retrieving Data Constraint Implementations Using Fine-Grained Code Patterns Technical Track Juan Manuel Florez The University of Texas at Dallas, Jonathan Perry The University of Texas at Dallas, Shiyi Wei University of Texas at Dallas, Andrian Marcus University of Texas at Dallas Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:20 5mTalk | Bridging Pre-trained Models and Downstream Tasks for Source Code Understanding Technical Track Deze Wang National University of Defense Technology, Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Yue Yu College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China, Yun Xiong Fudan University, Wei Dong School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||