Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments
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Resumo: | Automated assessment tools (AATs) are software systems used in teaching environments to automate the evaluation of computer programs implemented by students. These tools can be used to stimulate the interest of computer science students in programming courses by providing quick feedback on their work and highlighting their mistakes. Despite the abundance of such tools, most of them are developed for a specific course and are not production-ready. Others lack advanced features that are required for certain pedagogical goals (e.g. Git integration) and/or are not flexible enough to be used with students having different computer literacy levels, such as first year and second year students. In this paper we present Drop Project (DP), an automated assessment tool built on top of the Maven build automation software. We have been using DP in our teaching activity since 2018, having received more than fifty thousand submissions between projects, classroom exercises, tests and homework assignments. The tool’s automated feedback has allowed us to raise the difficulty level of the course’s projects, while the grading process has become more efficient and consistent between different teachers. DP is an extensively tested, production-ready tool. The software’s code and documentation are available in GitHub under an open-source software license. Keywords: Automated assessment ;Computer science education; Programming education ; Unit testing |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignmentsINFORMÁTICAAVALIAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃOPROGRAMAÇÃO DE COMPUTADORESENSINO DA INFORMÁTICACOMPUTER SCIENCEEDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENTCOMPUTER PROGRAMMINGCOMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHINGAutomated assessment tools (AATs) are software systems used in teaching environments to automate the evaluation of computer programs implemented by students. These tools can be used to stimulate the interest of computer science students in programming courses by providing quick feedback on their work and highlighting their mistakes. Despite the abundance of such tools, most of them are developed for a specific course and are not production-ready. Others lack advanced features that are required for certain pedagogical goals (e.g. Git integration) and/or are not flexible enough to be used with students having different computer literacy levels, such as first year and second year students. In this paper we present Drop Project (DP), an automated assessment tool built on top of the Maven build automation software. We have been using DP in our teaching activity since 2018, having received more than fifty thousand submissions between projects, classroom exercises, tests and homework assignments. The tool’s automated feedback has allowed us to raise the difficulty level of the course’s projects, while the grading process has become more efficient and consistent between different teachers. DP is an extensively tested, production-ready tool. The software’s code and documentation are available in GitHub under an open-source software license. Keywords: Automated assessment ;Computer science education; Programming education ; Unit testingElsevier2022-04-22T13:48:05Z2022-06-01T00:00:00Z2022-06-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101079http://hdl.handle.net/10437/12849eng2352-7110Cipriano, Bruno PereiraFachada, NunoAlves, Pedroinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-09T14:06:35Zoai:recil.ensinolusofona.pt:10437/12849Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:14:07.212864Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments Cipriano, Bruno Pereira INFORMÁTICA AVALIAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO PROGRAMAÇÃO DE COMPUTADORES ENSINO DA INFORMÁTICA COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHING |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments |
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Drop Project: an automatic assessment tool for programming assignments |
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Cipriano, Bruno Pereira |
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Cipriano, Bruno Pereira Fachada, Nuno Alves, Pedro |
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Fachada, Nuno Alves, Pedro |
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Cipriano, Bruno Pereira Fachada, Nuno Alves, Pedro |
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INFORMÁTICA AVALIAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO PROGRAMAÇÃO DE COMPUTADORES ENSINO DA INFORMÁTICA COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHING |
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INFORMÁTICA AVALIAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO PROGRAMAÇÃO DE COMPUTADORES ENSINO DA INFORMÁTICA COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHING |
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Automated assessment tools (AATs) are software systems used in teaching environments to automate the evaluation of computer programs implemented by students. These tools can be used to stimulate the interest of computer science students in programming courses by providing quick feedback on their work and highlighting their mistakes. Despite the abundance of such tools, most of them are developed for a specific course and are not production-ready. Others lack advanced features that are required for certain pedagogical goals (e.g. Git integration) and/or are not flexible enough to be used with students having different computer literacy levels, such as first year and second year students. In this paper we present Drop Project (DP), an automated assessment tool built on top of the Maven build automation software. We have been using DP in our teaching activity since 2018, having received more than fifty thousand submissions between projects, classroom exercises, tests and homework assignments. The tool’s automated feedback has allowed us to raise the difficulty level of the course’s projects, while the grading process has become more efficient and consistent between different teachers. DP is an extensively tested, production-ready tool. The software’s code and documentation are available in GitHub under an open-source software license. Keywords: Automated assessment ;Computer science education; Programming education ; Unit testing |
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