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Direct linkRamon Lawrence; Sarah Foss; Tatiana Urazova – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
Objectives: Automatic assessment systems are widely used to provide rapid feedback for students and reduce grading time. Despite the benefits of increased efficiency and improved pedagogical outcomes, an ongoing challenge is mitigating poor student behaviors when interacting with automatic assessment systems including numerous submissions,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Evaluation Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Riese, Emma; Bälter, Olle – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
Assessment plays an important role in education and can both guide and motivate learning. Assessment can, however, be carried out with different aims: providing the students with feedback that supports the learning (formative assessment) and judging to which degree the students have fulfilled the intended learning outcomes (summative assessment).…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Computer Science Education, Learning Motivation
Wainer, Jacques; Xavier, Eduardo C. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2018
We performed a controlled experiment comparing a C and a Python Introductory Programming course. Three faculty members at University of Campinas, Brazil, taught the same CS1 course for the same majors in two different semesters, one version in Python and one in C, with a total of 391 students involved in the experiment. We measured the dropout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Programming
