Toward Instant Gradeification

Daniel  Zimmerman; Joseph Roland Kiniry; Fintan Fairmichael

Toward Instant Gradeification

Daniel Zimmerman
, Joseph Roland Kiniry
, Fintan Fairmichael

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Abstract

Providing useful feedback to students about both the functional correctness and the internal structure of their submissions is the most labor-intensive part of teaching programming courses. The former can be automated through test scripts and other similar mechanisms; however, the latter typically requires a detailed inspection of the submitted code. This paper introduces AutoGradeMe, a tool that automates much (but not all) of the work required to grade the internal structure of a student submission in the Java programming language. It integrates with the Eclipse IDE and multiple third-party plug-ins to provide instructors with an easy-to-use grading environment. More importantly, unlike other automatic grading tools currently in use, it gives students continuous feedback about their programs during the development process.

Original language	English
Publication date	2012
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training - Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Duration: 22 May 2011 → 24 May 2011 http://conferences.computer.org/cseet/2011/CSEET_2011/Index.html

Conference

Conference	24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii
Period	22/05/2011 → 24/05/2011
Internet address	http://conferences.computer.org/cseet/2011/CSEET_2011/Index.html

Keywords

Automated grading
Programming education
Code structure analysis
Continuous feedback
Eclipse IDE integration

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