MAESTRO: a semi-autoMAted Evaluation SysTem for pROgramming assignments

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 01 Dec 2020Publisher:IEEEJournal:2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)

Authors: Bertagnon, Alessandro; Gavanelli, Marco;

doi: 10.1109/csci51800.2020.00177

handle: 11392/2459461

MAESTRO: a semi-autoMAted Evaluation SysTem for pROgramming assignments

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Abstract

Many works in the literature highlight the importance of formative assessment to improve the learning process. Formative assessment means providing assignments to the students and giving them feedback during the course. It is not very used in Italian Universities because it is highly time-consuming for the professors, that typically do not have help in the process of homework grading.In this work, we focus on programming exercises in computer science subjects, and propose a tool to semi-automatically grade and give feedback to the students. The tool was used in a computer language course on functional programming in a M.Sc. degree; the students evaluation of the course show a steep increase in the students appreciation. The tool is currently used in a course at undergraduate level on C programming.

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University of Ferrara
Italy

Keywords

Computer languages, Computer aided instruction, Scientific computing, Tools, Software, Functional programming, Computational intelligence, Distance learning methods and technologies, Computer and web-based software for instruction, Debugging tools and learning

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