Paper Info
Title
Towards automatic assessment of object-oriented programs
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe computing education community has shown a long-time interest in how to analyze the Object-Oriented (OO) source code developed by students to provide them with useful formative tips. In this paper, we propose and evaluate an approach to analyze how students use Java and its language constructs. The approach is implemented through a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) and it is based on the analysis of the most common violations of the OO paradigm in the student source code. Moreover, the IDE supports the automatic generation of reports about student's mistakes and misconceptions that can be used by instructors to improve the course design. The paper discusses the preliminary results of an experiment performed in a class of a Programming II course to investigate the effects of the provided reports in terms of coding ability (concerning the correctness of the produced code).
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3377812.3390907
International Conference on Software Engineering
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Object oriented development, Student assessment, Polymorphism, Abstract data types, Inheritance
Conference
0270-5257
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-6528-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pasquale Ardimento14810.47
Mario Luca Bernardi215629.89
Marta Cimitile318324.34