Agents that reduce work and information overload
Communications of the ACM
Grading student programs using ASSYST
SIGCSE '97 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Agent-based cooperative learning: a proof-of-concept experiment
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
An experimental analysis of GAME: a generic automated marking environment
Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
The boss online submission and assessment system
Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)
Using an automatic marking system for programming courses
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference: expanding the boundaries
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technology
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Computer programming is considered a fundamental subject in most of engineering and computer related programs in many universities. Usually, the teaching responsibility is given to a single department, which will service the entire university. The limit on staffing will most certainly result in the creation of big-sized classes. This in turn, will produce voluminous workload to the teaching staff hence rendering close monitoring of students' performance next to impossible. This paper proposes a distributed and agent oriented architecture for a Student Assessment System. In the realm of Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) a lot of systems in used currently are both centralized and standalone. Our design concentrates on two primary goals; to harness the power of distributed computing and to make CAA an integrated part of any existing E-Learning System. We have analyzed and extracted important functionalities required for the system, describe agent's roles for concerning each of the functions. We also describe the communication and accessibility aspect of the agents. We have developed an independent assessment module and performed some tests in a computer laboratory environment. We present in the last section of the paper, our findings regarding the assessment module's performance.