Grading student programs using ASSYST

Authors:
David Jackson;Michelle Usher
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.;Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.
Venue:
SIGCSE '97 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1997

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Abstract

The task of grading solutions to student programming exercises is laborious and error-prone. We have developed a software tool called ASSYST that is designed to relieve a tutor of much of the burden of assessing such programs. ASSYST offers a graphical interface that can be used to direct all aspects of the grading process, and it considers a wide range of criteria in its automatic assessment. Experience with the system has been encouraging.