Evaluation

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This page contains notes about the evaluation effort associated with foss2serve.

Student Learning

Thus far we have some indirect measures of student learning. For example:

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We are currently working on obtaining direct measures of learning. Broadly, these measures target:


a) learning of factual content including

  • Programming
  • Software development tools and processes
  • Professional behavior
  • Team skills

b) development of higher order thinking skills

Student Motivation

a) Student self-report measures of attitude and motivation related to

  • Studying computing
  • Majoring or minoring in computing
  • Computing careers
  • Use and importance of computing in other careers

b) Student retention in computing studies

References

Process Skills