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Test My Code: An Automatic Assessment Service for the Extreme Apprenticeship Method

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We describe an automated assessment system called Test My Code (TMC) which is designed to support instructors’ and students’ work in programming courses that use the Extreme Apprenticeship method. From the students’ point of view TMC is a transparent assessment service that is integrated to a industry-standard programming environment. TMC allows scaffolding during students’ working process, retrieves and updates exercises on the fly, and causes no overhead to the programming process. From the instructors’ perspective, TMC allows collaborative crafting of exercises with small goals that combine into bigger programs, gathering snapshots from students’ actual programming process, and collecting feedback. TMC has been successfully used in MOOCs in programming as well as in our university courses.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Arto Vihavainen, Matti Luukkainen & Martin Pärtel

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  1. , Department of Internal Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Viale S. Salvatore - Edificio Delta, L'Aquila fraz. Coppito, 67100, Italy

    Pierpaolo Vittorini

  2. , Computer Science Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, Bolzano, 39100, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  3. , L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Appelstraße 4, Hannover, 30167, Germany

    Ivana Marenzi

  4. , Department of Electric and, University of L’Aquila, Monteluco di Roio, L’Aquila, 67040, Italy

    Tania Di Mascio

  5. , Departamento Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Fernando De la Prieta

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Vihavainen, A., Luukkainen, M., Pärtel, M. (2013). Test My Code: An Automatic Assessment Service for the Extreme Apprenticeship Method. In: Vittorini, P., Gennari, R., Marenzi, I., Mascio, T., Prieta, F. (eds) 2nd International Workshop on Evidence-based Technology Enhanced Learning. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 218. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00554-6_14

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