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Assessment is one of the most common tasks teachers perform from the early stages of their professional development. This chapter highlights the uniqueness of learners’ assessment in the case of computer science education, emphasizing that assessment is not a target by itself but, rather, a pedagogical means by which (a) teachers improve their understanding of the current knowledge of their learners and (b) learners get feedback related to their own understanding of the learned subjects. The chapter also delivers the message that the theme of assessment can be discussed in the MTCS course in different occasions, for example, learners’ alternative conceptions, project-based learning, and types of questions. The main topics that this chapter focuses on with respect to assessment in computer science education are tests, project, and portfolio. We end the chapter by addressing the assessment of the students enrolled in the MTCS course.

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    This section is based on Kalif (2015).

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    Source: http://www.eportfolios.ac.uk/definition

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  2. Faculty of Education, Beit Berl College, Doar Beit Berl, Israel

    Noa Ragonis

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Hazzan, O., Ragonis, N., Lapidot, T. (2020). Assessment. In: Guide to Teaching Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39360-1_13

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