Technical Report: DCC-98-4
Automatic Grading of Programming Exercises
José Paulo Leal and Nelma Moreira
DCC & LIACC
Universidade do Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre, 823 4150 Porto, Portugal
June 1998
Abstract
This report describes a system for solving programming exercises
in a controlled environment allowing the evaluation of the student's
programming skills. The system's main component is the solving
environment in which the students solves individually the examination,
and submits it for automatic grading. The system provides also
a monitoring environment to be used by the course teacher to oversee
the examination.
In this report we include an evaluation of the described system based
on feedback of students and teachers. This evaluation lead to the
proposal of directions for future research.
Keywords: Program assessment; Computer assisted instruction