Program Peer Assessment Using Tagging Approach

摘要

Most of the programming novices feel hard to learn programming skills, such as coding, tracing, debugging and testing. To help them learn programming well, computer program assessments which can find out the novices' programming misconception have been proposed. Although traditional computer program assessment can score the student's program by executing the program with test cases, it is ineffective because the novices' programming misconception in the coding mistakes and tracing mistakes can not be singled out In the peer assessment activity, the learners can discuss their works with each other, so every learner can get the comments about his/her work together with the score. This papa proposes a new computer program peer assessment to help the novices easily find out their programming misconception in the coding mistakes and tracing mistakes. An experiment has been done to evaluate the effectiveness of the new assessment. We may conclude that the process is useful to single out the learner's coding and tracing problems, and that the tracing guidance is useful to direct the novice to trace peer's program.