How to develop and grade an exam for 20,000 students (or maybe just 200 or 20)

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Welcome to Northern Kentucky/The Southern Side of Cincinnati andto the Thirty-Third Annual Technical Symposium on Computer ScienceEducation. Prompted by the overflowing level of excitement ofrecent SIGCSE Symposia, this year's regular program extends anextra half day -- through Saturday afternoon. The program includesa wonderful collection of papers, panels, special sessions, forums,special activities for first-timers and students, posterpresentations, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and plenary sessions.Additional workshops now start on Wednesday afternoon and evening,and continue through Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Manythanks to all contributors for their efforts. Special thanks to theSIGCSE 2002 committee -- particularly Symposium Co-Chairs, JudithGersting and Renee McCauley, and Program Chair, Scott Grissom --for putting such a terrific program together.>This annual Symposium is the largest of the conferences that aresponsored by SIGCSE. Our next conference is the Seventh AnnualConference on Innovation and Technology in Computer ScienceEducation (ITiCSE 2002), to be held June 24-26, 2002, at theUniversity of Aarhus, Denmark.>Additional information on all SIGCSE activities may be foundthrough the SIGCSE Web page at http://www.acm.org/sigcse/. On-goingSIGCSE news is available through the SIGCSE list serve,SIGCSE.MEMBERS@aem.org. I f you are not already receiving messages,I encourage SIGCSE members to subscribe by following the links fromthe SIGCSE Web page!>I also encourage you to talk with SIGCSE Board membersthroughout the Symposium and especially at the SIGCSE BusinessMeeting on Friday afternoon. Please plan on joining us as weconsider fiature directions for SIGCSE.>The annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer ScienceEducation has long been recognized as the premier event in computerscience education. We believe this year's symposium will uphold thestandards of excellence established by the symposia of the past,thanks to the many people who participatedin its creation. Theseinclude all of you who contributed papers, proposals for specialsessions, panels, or workshops, those of you who served asreviewers, those who organized Birds of a Feather sessions or puttogether a faculty poster, or who brought student volunteers orvolunteered to lead a student session.>There is so much going on that SIGCSE 2002 is the firstsymposium to offer a schedule of three full days of technicalsessions. The program includes 74 papers, 13 special sessions, 13panels, 27 workshops, 28 faculty posters, 19 Birds-of-a- Feathersessions. There is a student track with 8 presentations designedspecifically to serve the interests of the student attendee.Co-located events include the SIGCSE Doctoral Consortium and theACM Student Research Contest. Elliot Soloway is the recipient ofthe 2002 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to ComputerScience Education and is the keynote speaker, and Joe Turner is therecipient of the 2002 SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service. RobertMartin, of Object Mentor, Incorporated, is the luncheon speaker.Exhibits feature new and exciting teaching materials in the form oftextbooks, hardware, and software. The traditional reception offersopportunities for renewing old friendships and making new ones. Thenew Saturday afternoon Forums offer opportunities for spiriteddiscussion on focused topics that we think will be of interest toall attendees.>The Proceedings you are now reading is the written summary ofmany of these activities, yet it doesn't completely capture theexcitement of SIGCSE 2002 and the dedication of the participantsand the symposium planners. The planning of this event has beenongoing for two years and has involved the time and talents ofmany.>Coordinating the reviewing process for this Symposium was awonderful experience for me. Working with the other volunteers andreading the careful reviews submitted by so many people from aroundthe world reinforced my pride and commitment to the SIGCSEcommunity.>The Symposium has gone completely'paperless'. Almost all of thepapers were submitted electronically and all of the reviews werecompleted online. All correspondence with authors, reviewers,committee members and session chairs was done via e-mail.>There were 234 papers submitted with 73 accepted (31%). Authorsrepresented eighteen countries: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh,Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, NewZealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UnitedKingdom, and the United States.>Over 400 reviewers completed over 1,100 reviews. Every paper hadat least three blind reviews and most papers had four or fivereviews completed. Program Committee members carefully read everyreview. Paper selection is always a difficult task. Unfortunately,we were forced to reject many qualified papers. Acceptancedecisions were based on the overall quality of a paper but topicarea was als0 considered to create a well-rounded program.