TY - JOUR
T1 - Automated Assessment of Computer Programming Practices
T2 - The 8-Years UNED Experience
AU - Galan, Daniel
AU - Heradio, Ruben
AU - VARGAS OYARZUN, HECTOR RENATO
AU - Abad, Ismael
AU - Cerrada, Jose A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The increasing popularity of distance education poses exciting new challenges. In particular, current pedagogical paradigms, such as competency-based education, require students' continuous evaluation. That is, to master skills, students need to receive constant feedback to guide their experimentation processes. However, teaching teams are usually under-dimensioned to support the large number of students that online courses usually have. This paper presents the approach we have adopted at the National University of Distance Education to overcome this problem for the case of computer programming practices, which complements human evaluation with an automatic assessment system. The paper describes our system and reports its benefits with an empirical study from 2011 to 2018 that involved 14,944 students.
AB - The increasing popularity of distance education poses exciting new challenges. In particular, current pedagogical paradigms, such as competency-based education, require students' continuous evaluation. That is, to master skills, students need to receive constant feedback to guide their experimentation processes. However, teaching teams are usually under-dimensioned to support the large number of students that online courses usually have. This paper presents the approach we have adopted at the National University of Distance Education to overcome this problem for the case of computer programming practices, which complements human evaluation with an automatic assessment system. The paper describes our system and reports its benefits with an empirical study from 2011 to 2018 that involved 14,944 students.
KW - automated assessment
KW - computer programming training
KW - Distance education
KW - online education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077779433&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2938391
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2938391
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077779433
VL - 7
SP - 130113
EP - 130119
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
M1 - 8819909
ER -