Acm committee on self-assessment(Panel-4): Programming skills/techniques test items: source and evaluation

This panel session is organized to acquaint the audience with the current status of ACM's role in self-assessment for the computer professional. The session will be primarily concerned with test-item sources and test-item evaluation in the area of programming skills and techniques as defined by the following eleven items from R. Berger's AFIPS Report on COMPUTER PROGRAMMER JOB ANALYSIS: Input/output buffering, sequential search, Modular organization of a program and its data, Subroutine linkage/link editing, Programmed switches (in program logic/flow of control), Program annotation, Table look up - for finding function values, Indexing - address modification, Diagnostic messages, Desk checking and Compiler/assembler diagnostics.