Automated Assessment in a Programming Tools Course

Automated assessment systems can be useful for both students and instructors. Ranking and immediate feedback can have a strongly positive effect on student learning. This paper presents an experience using automatic assessment in a programming tools course. The proposal aims at extending the traditi...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on education 2011-11, Vol.54 (4), p.576-581
1. Verfasser: Fernandez Aleman, José Luis
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Automated assessment systems can be useful for both students and instructors. Ranking and immediate feedback can have a strongly positive effect on student learning. This paper presents an experience using automatic assessment in a programming tools course. The proposal aims at extending the traditional use of an online judging system with a series of assignments related to programming tools. Some empirical results on how students use an automated assessment system in a CS2 course are presented. Research suggested that automated assessment systems promoted the students' interest and produced statistically significant differences in the scores between experimental and control groups.
ISSN:0018-9359
1557-9638
DOI:10.1109/TE.2010.2098442