TY - GEN
T1 - Insight tasks for examining student illuminations
AU - Ginat, David
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Students who attend the national Olympiad process join the activity with diverse programming 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 process, 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 levels of difficulty, and elaborate on their relevance. Particular emphasis is put on the importance of assertional observations, creative operational ideas, and suitable problem representations.
AB - Students who attend the national Olympiad process join the activity with diverse programming 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 process, 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 levels of difficulty, and elaborate on their relevance. Particular emphasis is put on the importance of assertional observations, creative operational ideas, and suitable problem representations.
KW - Insight tasks
KW - Problem representation
KW - Problem solving
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905745787&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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AN - SCOPUS:84905745787
SN - 9771822773007
T3 - Olympiads in Informatics
SP - 44
EP - 52
BT - Olympiads in Informatics - Selected Papers of the International Conference Joint with the 24th International Olympiad in Informatics, IOI 2012
PB - Vilnius University
T2 - 24th International Olympiad in Informatics, IOI 2012
Y2 - 23 September 2012 through 30 September 2012
ER -