Insight Tasks for Examining Student Illuminations
David Ginat · 2012
Students who attend the national Olympiad process join the activity with diverse pro- gramming backgrounds and experience. Thus, in the process of selecting the better students, we examine their competence, given their heterogeneous backgrounds. In various parts of this pro- cess, we may want to mask programming advantage. This may be done by posing insight tasks that require limited programming knowledge. In this paper, we display such tasks, of various lev- els of difficulty, and elaborate on their relevance. Particular emphasis is put on the importance of assertional observations, creative operational ideas, and suitable problem representations.