Lecturers’ and Students’ Experiences with an Automated Programming Assessment System
Clemens Sauerwein, Simon Priller, Martin Dobiasch, Stefan Oppl, Michael Felderer, Ruth Breu · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2023
Assessment of source code in university education has become an integral part of grading students and providing them valuable feedback on their developed software solutions. Thereby, lecturers have to deal with a rapidly growing number of students from heterogeneous fields of study, a shortage of lecturers, a highly dynamic set of learning objectives and technologies, and the need for more targeted student support. To meet these challenges, the use of an automated programming assessment system (APAS) to support traditional teaching is a promising solution. This paper examines this trend by analyzing the experiences of lecturers and students at various universities with an APAS and its impact over the course of a semester. In doing so, we conducted a total number of 30 expert interviews with end users, including 15 lecturers and 15 students, from four different universities within the same country. The results discuss the experiences of lecturers and students and highlight challenges that should be addressed in future research.