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Direct linkIbrahim Albluwi; Raghda Hriez; Raymond Lister – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Explain-in-Plain-English (EiPE) questions are used by some researchers and educators to assess code reading skills. EiPE questions require students to briefly explain (in plain English) the purpose of a given piece of code, without restating what the code does line-by-line. The premise is that novices who can explain the purpose of a piece of code…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Programming, Computer Science Education, Student Evaluation
