Are We Fair?
Max Fowler, David Horton Smith, Chinedu Emeka, Matthew West, Craig B. Zilles · Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education · 2022
With the increase of large enrollment courses and the growing need to offer online instruction, computer-based exams randomly generated from question pools have a clear benefit for computing courses. Such exams can be used at scale, scheduled asynchronously and/or online, and use versioning to make attempts at cheating less profitable. Despite these benefits, we want to ensure that the technique is not unfair to students, particularly when it comes to equivalent difficulty across exam versions.