Wednesday, January 18. 2006My presentation at ACE 2006
"Automated Assessment is possible", "Template based marking is a bad idea", "You have to get feedback from students on what good assessment is" The slides from my presentation are available here. Automated Assessment in CS1 Trackbacks
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Is it possible to see a demonstration of your system anywhere on the web?
I "confess" the two you put into your presentation seem pretty difficult to me. I wouldn't mind seeing more like that. Possibly to bring up my ability in programming.
Its not a web based system (yet), It still messy as hell and has no proper interface. Basically I run off a load of questions, and then store them. So all I could point you to are heaps of questions, which I will go dig up, and throw up on a post soon.
Interesting presentation, fair play.
'If its a searching a problem, you put down a loop and an array, and an if statement. That usually gets you the marks' Depressing hearing that kind of thing, unfortunately not that suprising, in my experience.
Sounds very interesting Des, would have liked to see the presentation!
I found the example quesiton on the last slide both humours and bloody scarey, not sure if my recall on precedence rules would get me the right answer and I program in Java on daily basis!
Nice read, very interesting. Would be good to see something like this in
use. Last question is hard alright, probably requires a lot more than just good Java coding ability.
Thanks again for the feedback guys.
The answer to the last question is 40. The answer to the other question is given in the slides. Ciaran is correct in saying that the last one relies on more than good coding, basically its a trick a question, and trick questions only ever test anomalies in the language, rather than the actual normal behaviour.
And to think I've always felt bad for 'doodling' on papers and questions!
Hell, I might have even fetched a note-pad for some of the questions I did in the survey so as not to spoil the neat layout of the paper. At least I did get 40 on the last question. When I tried figuring it out for myself. Always loved the ++x style symantics. |
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