A marking language for the oto assignment marking tool

Tremblay, Guy; Lessard, Paul R.

doi:10.1145/1999747.1999791

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“…However, when a student performs a submission, the tool carries out a preliminary assessment of the solution, which usually consists of executing a small test suite against the student program. Tools that implement this strategy include BOSS [22,23,24], OTO [25,26,27] and PASS [28,29,30].…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Assessment Tools for Programming Assignments

Souza

Felizardo

Barbosa

2016

2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET)

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The benefits of using assessment tools for programming assignments have been widely discussed in computing education. However, as both researchers and instructors are unaware of the characteristics of existing tools, they are either not used or are reimplemented. This paper presents the results of a study conducted to collect and evaluate evidence about tools that assist in the assessment of programming assignments. To achieve our goal, we performed a systematic literature review since it provides an objective procedure for identifying the quantity of existing research related to a research question. The results identified subjects in the development of new assessment tools that researchers could better investigate and characteristics of assessment tools that could help instructors make selections for their programming courses.

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A Systematic Literature Review of Assessment Tools for Programming Assignments

Souza

Felizardo

Barbosa

2016

2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET)

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“…Lately there has been a move toward developing DSLs to describe assessments [17,7]. Fonte et al [7] propose a DSL they call OSSL which supports the semantic specification of expected program output.…”

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“…It has been found that informally specified languages tend to become excessively complex and error prone as systems evolve so as to perform more complex assessments [17]. For this reason, researchers have been exploring the possibility of developing more robust specification languages for assessments, which can be formally verified and for which one can easily develop supporting tools.…”

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Towards a Generic DSL for Automated Marking Systems

Solms

Pieterse

2016

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The automated static and dynamic assessment of programs makes it practical to increase the learning opportunities of large student classes through the regular assessment of programming assignments. Automatic assessments are traditionally specified in tool-specific languages which are closely linked to the functionality and implementation of a particular tool. This paper considers existing specification languages for assessments and proposes a generic and extensible domain-specific language for the specification of programming assignment assessments.

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