In programming courses, the traditional assessment approach tends to evaluate student performance by scoring one or more project-level summative assignments. This approach no longer meets the requirements of a quality...In programming courses, the traditional assessment approach tends to evaluate student performance by scoring one or more project-level summative assignments. This approach no longer meets the requirements of a quality programming language education. Based on an upgraded peer code review model, we propose a formative assessment approach to assess the learning of computer programming languages, and develop an online assessment system(OOCourse) to implement this approach. Peer code review and inspection is an effective way to ensure the high quality of a program by systematically checking the source code. Though it is commonly applied in industrial and open-source software development, it is rarely taught and practiced in undergraduate-level programming courses. We conduct a case study using the formative assessment method in a sophomore level Object-Oriented Design and Construction course with more than 240 students. We use Moodle(an online learning system) and some relevant plugins to conduct peer code review. We also conduct data mining on the running data from the peer assessment activities. The case study shows that formative assessment based on peer code review gradually improved the programming ability of students in the undergraduate class.展开更多
The software industry is asking universities and colleges to cultivate more software engineers who can write quality programs.A peer code review process is an ideal approach to maximize the learning outcome of student...The software industry is asking universities and colleges to cultivate more software engineers who can write quality programs.A peer code review process is an ideal approach to maximize the learning outcome of students in programming.In this paper,the process in our previous publication was improved.The found problems were analyzed which will take as the basis of the future research on quality assurance.Finally,a set of solutions based on computer science were proposed to further improve the whole review process.展开更多
文摘In programming courses, the traditional assessment approach tends to evaluate student performance by scoring one or more project-level summative assignments. This approach no longer meets the requirements of a quality programming language education. Based on an upgraded peer code review model, we propose a formative assessment approach to assess the learning of computer programming languages, and develop an online assessment system(OOCourse) to implement this approach. Peer code review and inspection is an effective way to ensure the high quality of a program by systematically checking the source code. Though it is commonly applied in industrial and open-source software development, it is rarely taught and practiced in undergraduate-level programming courses. We conduct a case study using the formative assessment method in a sophomore level Object-Oriented Design and Construction course with more than 240 students. We use Moodle(an online learning system) and some relevant plugins to conduct peer code review. We also conduct data mining on the running data from the peer assessment activities. The case study shows that formative assessment based on peer code review gradually improved the programming ability of students in the undergraduate class.
文摘The software industry is asking universities and colleges to cultivate more software engineers who can write quality programs.A peer code review process is an ideal approach to maximize the learning outcome of students in programming.In this paper,the process in our previous publication was improved.The found problems were analyzed which will take as the basis of the future research on quality assurance.Finally,a set of solutions based on computer science were proposed to further improve the whole review process.
