Automated Marking in Undergraduate Programming Classes

Martin Goodfellow; Andrew Abel; Konstantinos Liaskos; John Levine

doi:10.1145/3633053.3633060

Automated Marking in Undergraduate Programming Classes

Martin Goodfellow, Andrew Abel, Konstantinos Liaskos, John Levine

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Abstract

Growing undergraduate class sizes has led to exploring different approaches to marking individual programming assignments. One of these approaches is automated marking. This paper details how automated marking was successfully utilised in multiple undergraduate classes, with a programming element, at the University of Strathclyde. We made use of two automated systems, CodeRunner, and one similar in-house system, Browser Automated Marking (BAMjs), developed by a former teaching associate Philip Rodgers. These were used across years 1-3 and assessed the Java, Python and C programming languages. We provide some example questions, discuss how its use has affected student performance, as well as student feedback on the approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CEP '24: Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computing Education Practice
Editors	Jane Waite, Ryan Crosby
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	13-16
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9798400709326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3633053.3633060
Publication status	Published - 5 Jan 2024

Keywords

CodeRunner
automated marking
programming

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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