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Direct linkIbrahim Albluwi; Raghda Hriez; Raymond Lister – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Explain-in-Plain-English (EiPE) questions are used by some researchers and educators to assess code reading skills. EiPE questions require students to briefly explain (in plain English) the purpose of a given piece of code, without restating what the code does line-by-line. The premise is that novices who can explain the purpose of a piece of code…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Programming, Computer Science Education, Student Evaluation
Umar Alkafaween; Ibrahim Albluwi; Paul Denny – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Automatically graded programming assignments provide instant feedback to students and significantly reduce manual grading time for instructors. However, creating comprehensive suites of test cases for programming problems within automatic graders can be time-consuming and complex. The effort needed to define test suites may deter some…
Descriptors: Automation, Grading, Introductory Courses, Programming
