Supporting intense needs of assessment in computer programming disciplines

• Author(s): Brito, Miguel António Sousa Abrunhosa de ; Soares, Filipe de Sá
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21760
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Programming education; e-Learning platform; Learning and teaching computer programming to novice students; Assessment frequency; Constructivism; Learning management system
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Completed research paper After several years of experience teaching computer programming disciplines, the major insight about how to succeed became very clear. Students must work in a weekly flawless base. Instead, students tend to study occasionally with strong peeks of work at assessment eves. However, implementing assessments in a weekly base requires a lot of resources and that is not easy to obtain. At an earlier stage, a sequence of experiments proved the influence of weekly assessment in students’ success in computer programming disciplines. A methodology to guide the weekly rhythm was developed and finally an automated assessment tool solved the problem of lack of resources.