FIT Academic receives Carrick Priority Grant funding

Angela Carbone and a group of academics from five tertiary institutions across Australia were recently awarded a Carrick Priority Grant for a project titled "Improving the Formative and Summative Assessment of Novice Computer Programmers".

This cross institutional proposal involving Monash, UTS, QUT, University of Sydney, and USQ, is concerned with improvements to approaches used for the assessment of programming. The project will run over two years: the first phase of the project will evaluate and synthesize different assessment approaches practiced amongst the institutions; the second phase will produce a collection of integrated software systems providing automatic formative and summative assessment of computer programming ability. The software systems will be made available to other institutions via seminars and dissemination workshops. The project aims to raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of assessment for quality learning in computer programming.

Of 71 expressions of interest submitted to Carrick Priority Grant Scheme only 13 were approved to be developed into a full proposal.  The Carrick Standing Committee has approved funding of $196 340 (ex GST) for this proposal.