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CSEE 1994: Software Engineering Education pp 461–472Cite as

Alternative assessment for software engineering education

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In this paper we present a new architecture for assessment that involves the integration of hypermedia with key requirements for advancing students' education. The result is an interactive system for assessing student competence that fosters individualized progress through a given software engineering curriculum and provides instructors and administrators with quantitative, standardized assessments of confidence, states of knowledge, and problem-solving ability. We present preliminary results of our prototype development effort and describe an architecture and rationale for such systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, Campus Box 109, 80217-3364, Denver, Colorado

    Dr. Jody Paul

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Paul, J. (1993). Alternative assessment for software engineering education. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017634

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