Automated Grading Systems (AGSs) are increasingly used in higher education assessment practices, raising issues about the responsibilities of the various stakeholders involved both in their design and use. This study explores how teachers, students, ...

Autograding systems are being increasingly deployed to meet the challenges of teaching programming at scale. Studies show that formative feedback can greatly help novices learn programming. This work extends an autograder, enabling it to provide formative ...

As the need for multicore-aware programmers rises in both science and industry, Computer Science departments in universities around the USA are having to rethink their parallel computing curriculum. At Rice University, this rethinking took the shape of ...

While the use of autograders for code correctness is widespread, less effort has focused on automating feedback for good programming style: the tasteful use of language features and idioms to produce code that is not only correct, but also concise, ...

In computer-aided education, the goal of automatic feedback is to provide a meaningful explanation of students' mistakes. We focus on providing feedback for constructing a deterministic finite automaton that accepts strings that match a described ...

As parallel computing grows and becomes an essential part of computer science, tools must be developed to help grade assignments for large courses, especially with the prevalence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) increasing in recent years. This ...

In this installment of Trend Wars, Dejan Milojicic discusses autograding with David O'Hallaron, a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Featured here is an excerpt from the in-depth ...