A Critical Review on Recent Proposed Automated Programming Assessment Tool

Automated assessment tool for programming assignments has been discussed extensively in education technology ever since of its existence. The tool aims to reduce the work load of instructors as well as providing an instantfeedback to students in pertaining to assessing programming assignments. Myriad versions of the tool accompanied with multiple features has been proposed till this day in order to cater modern trend of education technologies. Many previous studies have analyse on these existing tools but not on recent one. This study have conducted a critical review on the recent proposed tool based on its pedagogical and technical aspect. As a result of this study, more recent proposed tool are identified and its challenging issues are also highlighted.

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Using an automated assessment tool to explore difficulties of middle school students in introductory programming

Journal of Research on Technology in Education ◽

10.1080/15391523.2020.1865220 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Yizhou Qian ◽

James Lehman

Keyword(s):

Middle School ◽

Middle School Students ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

School Students ◽

Automated Assessment ◽

Introductory Programming

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Using a Notification, Recommendation and Monitoring System to Improve Interaction in an Automated Assessment Tool: An Analysis of Students’ Perceptions

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction ◽

10.1080/10447318.2021.1938400 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Joan Manuel Marquès ◽

Laura Calvet ◽

Marta Arguedas ◽

Thanasis Daradoumis ◽

Enric Mor

Keyword(s):

Monitoring System ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Automated Assessment

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Peer Assessment in Writing: A Critical Review of Previous Studies

JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS ◽

10.24297/jal.v10i0.7992 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 1478-1487

Author(s):

Sonia Dutta Gupta ◽

Fatimah Abdullah ◽

Gu Li ◽

Yang Xueshuang

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Critical Review ◽

English Language ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Peer Assessment ◽

Student Centered ◽

Efl Context ◽

Effective Assessment ◽

Near Future

Peer assessment has attracted more attention an effective assessment tool in recent years. Peer assessment refers to the arrangement for peers to consider the quality of learning outcomes of others of similar status, it received attention of various studies due to the growing interest in the student centered approach as learners need to be involved in the learning process even in the assessment. This paper is a critical review of previous studies on peer assessment in English as Second/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) context. Fifteen peer assessment studies from 2004 to 2017 were extensively reviewed and systematically analyzed. Peer assessment of the reviewed studies were on the quality of the writing outcomes of students in the EFL/ESL contexts, as writing skill occupies an important role in teaching English language. As a critical review paper of these studies, this paper highlights practical use of peer assessment and the important challenges or issues that need to be considered when utilizing peer assessment in the classroom. This paper hopes that practical measures of peer assessment will be utilized effectively by educators in the ESL and EFL classrooms in the near future.

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