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Automatic graders for programming classes

Hollingsworth, Jack

Communications of the ACM, 1960-10, Vol.3 (10), p.528-529

New York, NY, USA: ACM

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Automatic graders for programming classes
Autor: Hollingsworth, Jack
Assuntos: Applied computing ; Applied computing / Education ; Social and professional topics ; Social and professional topics / Professional topics ; Social and professional topics / Professional topics / Computing education ; Social and professional topics / Professional topics / Computing education / Computing education programs ; Social and professional topics / Professional topics / Computing education / Computing education programs / Computer science education ; Social and professional topics / Professional topics / Computing education / Computing education programs / Information science education ; Social and professional topics / Professional topics / Computing education / Model curricula ; Software and its engineering
É parte de: Communications of the ACM, 1960-10, Vol.3 (10), p.528-529
Descrição: Fifteen months ago the first version of an "automatic grader" was tried with a group of twenty students taking a formal course in programming. The first group of twenty programs took only five minutes on the computer (an IBM 650). With such a satisfactory beginning, the grader was then used for the entire course with this group of students and have been used at Rensselaer ever since. For all exercises, the average time spent on the computer has run from half a minute to a minute for each student. In general only an eighth as much computer time is required when the grader is used as is required when each student is expected to run his own program, probably less than a third as much staff time, and considerably less student time. The grader easily justifies itself on economic grounds. It accomplishes more than savings in time and money; it makes possible the teaching of programming to large numbers of students. This spring we had 80 students taking a full semester course in programming; over 120 are expected next spring. We could not accommodate such numbers without the use of the grader. Even though the grader makes the teaching of programming to large numbers of students possible and economically feasible, a most serious question remains, how well did the students learn? After fifteen months, our experience leads us to believe that students learn programming not only as well but probably better than they did under the method we did use-laboratory groups of four or five students. They are not as skilled in machine operation, however, since they get only a brief introduction to it late in the course. After learning programming, very little time is needed for each student to become at least an adequate machine operator. Students seem to like the grader and are not reluctant to suggest improvements!
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