Crowdsourcing Multiple Choice Questions for Computing

When assessing students’ learning in computing, one approach is to ask questions and use students’ answers to judge what they’ve learnt: these questions can as straightforward as multiple choice. Responses to questions certainly have a place in summative assessment at the end of a course, but they’ve much to offer for formative assessment before, during and after lessons or units of work. Lots of teachers are doing this sort of thing already – writing their own questions to ask their...