A Service-Based Program Evaluation Platform for Enhancing Student Engagement in Assignments

Programming assignments are commonly used in computer science education to encourage students to practice target concepts and evaluate their learning status. Ensuring students are engaged in such assignments is critical in attracting and retaining students. To this end, WebHat, a service-based progr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Educational Technology ＆ Society Jg. 16; H. 4; S. 122 - 132
Hauptverfasser: Wu, Ye-Chi, Ma, Lee Wei, Jiau, Hewijin Christine
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Palmerston North International Forum of Educational Technology ＆ Society 01.10.2013
International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
Schlagworte:
Assignments
College Freshmen
Competitiveness
Computer Games
Computer programming
Computer Science
Computer Science Education
Computer Software
Course Descriptions
Educational programs
Electronic learning
Evaluators
Failure modes
Foreign Countries
Full Length Articles
Information Technology
Instructional Effectiveness
Introductory Courses
Learner Engagement
Learning
Management
Program Evaluation
Programming
Programming Languages
School Holding Power
Science Curriculum
Science Education
Science Instruction
Service learning
Simulation
Software engineering
Student Interests
Student participation
Students
Taiwan
Teachers
Teaching methods
Web Based Instruction
Taiwan
Programming evaluation service
Service-based learning platform
Programming teaching
Student engagement
ISSN:1176-3647, 1436-4522, 1436-4522
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Zusammenfassung:Programming assignments are commonly used in computer science education to encourage students to practice target concepts and evaluate their learning status. Ensuring students are engaged in such assignments is critical in attracting and retaining students. To this end, WebHat, a service-based program evaluation platform, is introduced in this work to support programming assignment practice. WebHat provides students with immediate assistance via online evaluation services and helps teaching staff monitor student status and progress. Based on the results of this system, teaching staff can dynamically adjust, if necessary, online evaluation services to provide further help to enhance student engagement in the ongoing assignment. To demonstrate the effectiveness of WebHat, an empirical study is conducted with freshman students as the subjects during the Introduction to Computer Science course. The results show that students are encouraged to start working on their assignments earlier and develop programs in the desired direction with the aid of the dynamically adjusted online evaluation services. WebHat thus enables students to submit better final products with regard to both functionality and quality.
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