Using reflection to enhance feedback for automated grading (abstract only)
Carl Alphonce, Joseph LeGasse · 2012
Feedback serves a critical role in the learning process. For formative assessment to be effective in supporting a student's learning, feedback must be provided in a timely fashion (so a student can derive benefit while engaging in the learning activity), it must be consistent across multiple submissions of the same student as well as across submissions by different students, and it must be of high quality (i.e. it must give students guidance as to how to improve their submission). In this poster we present a small library of Java classes which aid the writing automated tests for assessing the design of student programming exercises. Through its use of reflection we can allow more free-form assignments, and can provide feedback on both program functionality and design.