Perspectives on Computer Science Competitions
for (High School) Students

Workshop, January 22-27, 2006, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany

Accepted Papers

Thanks to all the people who took the time and pain to write down results of their work, thoughts, or brain storming. We believe that the workshop will be quite interesting.

We roughly ordered the papers into three categories. Some papers contribute to more than one category; we ordered them into where we thought them to fit best. Some authors may be asked to contribute to more than one session. In addition, there will be a special presentation session on grading systems.

Description

Author(s) Title Presentation Revised Submission
R. Boersen
M. Phillipps		 Programming Contests:
Two Innovative Models From New Zealand		 PDF PDF PDF
V. Dagiene Competition in Information Technology -
learning in an attractive way		 - - PDF
W. van der Vegt The CodeCup, an annual game programming competition PDF PDF PDF

Analysis

Author(s) Title Presentation Revised Submission
G. Cormack Statistical Analysis of IOI Scoring PDF PDF PDF
M. Forisek On suitability of programming competition
tasks for automated testing		 PDF PDF PDF
S. Manzoor Analyzing Programming Contest Statistics - PDF
PDF (high qual.)		 PDF
T. Verhoeff The IOI Is (Not) a Science Olympiad PDF
PDF (print)		 PDF PDF
B. Yakovenko 50% rule should be changed. PDF PDF PDF

Suggestions for Improval

Author(s) Title Presentation Revised Submission
G. Cormack
et al.		 Structure, Scoring and Purpose
of Computing Competition		 PDF (part 1)
PDF (part 2)		 PDF PDF
M. Fisher
A. Cox		 Gender and Programming Contests:
Mitigating Exclusionary Practices		 PDF PDF PDF
M. Opmanis Possible Ways to Improve Olympiads in Informatics PDF PDF PDF
W. Pohl Computer Science Competitions for High School Students -
Approaches to Classification and New Task Types		 PDF (part 1)
PDF (part 2)		 PDF PDF
H. Wang
B. Yin		 Visualization, Antagonism and Opening -
Towards the Future of the IOI Contest		 - - PDF

Grading Systems

Author(s) Title Presentation Revised Submission
M. Michalski
et al.		 SIO.NET - Plug & Play Contest System - PDF PDF