New Horizons in the Assessment of Computer Science at School and Beyond: Leveraging on the ViVA Platform
New Horizons in the Assessment of Computer Science at School and Beyond: Leveraging on the ViVA Platform
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学校及其他领域计算机科学评估的新视野：利用 ViVA 平台
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10.1145/2858796.2858801
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2015
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Lina Vinikiene
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D. Giordano;F. Maiorana;A. Csizmadia;S. Marsden;Charles Riedesel;Shitanshu Mishra;Lina Vinikiene
在欧洲和全世界，我们如何在小学和中学上教孩子有关计算的方式进行了一场革命。出现ICT以及如何使用Microsoft Office；来编码和计算机科学。评估在这场革命中起着至关重要的作用。如果教师使用低质量的评估工具，我们将最终教授错误的主题；和Viceversa。本文回顾了该领域的状态，并为开发用于计算机科学的共享高质量评估的具体，可实现的建议。该提案的核心是协作平台Viva（Vilnius进行了合作编码和验证的计算机科学问题/评估任务）。 VIVA的两个要求是：1）支持多个能力框架，以便贡献者可以就最熟悉的框架进行元标记资源； 2）支持众包对每个问题/任务的验证及其映射到能力。提出了针对计算思维概念和能力框架的问题/任务类型的分类/任务类型的使用。在线平台原型中已经有一些种子问题，并且各种支持者已允许使用大型问题银行。概述了对现代有效的评估方法的全面实施的设计要求，包括对数字徽章的支持；并提出了对VIVA初始贡献者进行的调查的一些初步结果。
A revolution is taking place across Europe and worldwide in how we teach our children about computing, in primary and secondary school. Out goes ICT and how to use Microsoft Office; in comes coding and computer science. Assessment has a crucial role to play in this revolution. If teachers use low-quality assessment instruments we will end-up teaching the wrong subject; and viceversa. This paper reviews the state of the field, and makes concrete, achievable proposals for developing shared, high quality assessments for computer science. Central to this proposal is the collaborative platform VIVA (the Vilnius collaboratively coded and Validated computer science questions/tasks for Assess- ment). Two requirements are key to VIVA: 1) support for multiple competency frameworks, so that the contributors can meta-tag resources with respect to the framework they are most familiar with; and 2) support for crowdsourcing the validation of each question/task and its mapping to competencies. The use of a taxonomy of questions/tasks type that has been mapped to computational thinking concepts and to a competency framework is proposed. Some seed questions are already available in the online platform prototype, and various supporters have granted permission to use large questions banks. The design requirements of a full implementation of the VIVA platform for a modern and effective approach to assessment including support for digital badges, are outlined; and some preliminary results from a survey administered to the initial contributors to VIVA are presented.