III. GATHERING I/O EXAM QUESTIONS
As this project grows, we would expect to analyse exam
questions from many universities in a range of countries.
However, as we have found no reports of such work on the I/O
topic, or more generally in the field of Computer Architecture
[13], we decided to start our study locally. We analysed the
curricula of several Spanish universities in order to find which
courses included the I/O topic, and discovered which lecturer
was in charge of each course. We then asked lecturers at
15 different universities to send us their exam questions, and
broadcast the same request to the mailing list of the Spanish
Society of Computer Science Education, indicating that we
wished to analyse the exam questions in order to determine
the learning outcomes that they assess.
Responses were received from nine of the 15 targeted
universities. Two of those said that they would not send their
personal work, and one sent only laboratory exercises, which
were not pertinent to our work. Another respondent, who had
only just taken over the course and had never prepared exam
questions for it, sent us the contact details of other lecturers
who had taught the subject in previous years.
In response to the request sent to the mailing list, one person
was initially interested in our work, but was unable to follow
up by sending us exam questions.
We have therefore collected 152 exam exercises from six
different universities, including our own. We agreed that we
should begin the work with these questions, in the hope of
attracting more interest once we have published our initial
findings.
III. GATHERING I/O EXAM QUESTIONS
As this project grows, we would expect to analyse exam
questions from many universities in a range of countries.
However, as we have found no reports of such work on the I/O
topic, or more generally in the field of Computer Architecture
[13], we decided to start our study locally. We analysed the
curricula of several Spanish universities in order to find which
courses included the I/O topic, and discovered which lecturer
was in charge of each course. We then asked lecturers at
15 different universities to send us their exam questions, and
broadcast the same request to the mailing list of the Spanish
Society of Computer Science Education, indicating that we
wished to analyse the exam questions in order to determine
the learning outcomes that they assess.
Responses were received from nine of the 15 targeted
universities. Two of those said that they would not send their
personal work, and one sent only laboratory exercises, which
were not pertinent to our work. Another respondent, who had
only just taken over the course and had never prepared exam
questions for it, sent us the contact details of other lecturers
who had taught the subject in previous years.
In response to the request sent to the mailing list, one person
was initially interested in our work, but was unable to follow
up by sending us exam questions.
We have therefore collected 152 exam exercises from six
different universities, including our own. We agreed that we
should begin the work with these questions, in the hope of
attracting more interest once we have published our initial
findings.
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