OLYMPIADS IN INFORMATICS, 2013, Vol. 7, 132-139
© Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,

ISSN 1822-7732

Predicting the Difficulty Level of a Bebras Task

Willem van der VEGT

Dutch Olympiad in Informatics, Windesheim University for Applied Sciences PO Box 10090, 8000 GB Zwolle, The Netherlands E-mail: w.van.der.vegt@windesheim.nl

Abstract

In the Bebras contest questions are marked as easy, medium or hard. Sometimes contestants perform other than expected. Since pretesting is impossible, we want to find out what kind of tasks were misplaced and develop some guidelines for predicting the difficulty level.

Keywords:

Bebras contest, task design, question difficulty


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