An Alternative Testing Strategy for Advanced Programming Courses

The traditional methodologies for evaluating student learning have been either a hand-written exam, usually in the form of multiple choice questions, or a take home program. These meth-ods both have limitations which make it difficult to accurately measure a student’s ability to apply the material learned to design and develop a program. An alternative testing strategy would be to let each student develop a take-home program exam for another student in the class. This evaluation strategy would allow students to uniquely apply the material learned. While developing their own programs, students would gain a better perspective of the limita-tions of their current knowledge