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Appendix I Datasets ALL --- All students, all questions, including bonus marks AMAB --- All students, single totals for multiple choice and short answer, excluding bonus marks TMA --- Top 115 students by mark (33\%), single totals for multiple choice and short answer, including bonus prac marks TMAB --- Top 115 students by mark (33\%), single totals for multiple choice and short answer, excluding bonus prac marks BMAB --- Bottom 115 students by mark (33\%), single totals for multiple choice and short answer, excluding bonus prac marks O4-40 --- orthogonal, four competencies, 40 questions OM4-40 --- orthomodal, four base competencies, two modal competencies at 0.25, 40 questions OMA4-40 --- orthomodal, four base competencies, one modal competency at 0.25 and one at 0.75, 40 questions M4-3 --- mixed, four competencies, three competencies per question

Concept mapping for introductory programming Thesis main page Introduction and background     Background: education     Assessment     Background: concept maps   Aims     Competency mapping     Benefits   Method and results     Data sets     Method     Results     Random data   Analysis and conclusions     Factor analysis     Cluster analysis     Methodological problems     A better test     Conclusion   Appendix I: Datasets Appendix II: Activities Appendix III: MDS coordinates Appendix IV: Data generation scripts   Bibliography

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