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Web-CAT: automatically grading programming assignments
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This demonstration introduces participants to using Web-CAT, an open-source automated grading system. Web-CAT is customizable and extensible, allowing it to support a wide variety of programming languages and assessment strategies. Web-CAT is most well-known as the system that grades students on how well they test their own code, with experimental evidence that it offers greater learning benefits than more traditional output-comparison grading. Participants will learn how to set up courses, prepare reference tests, set up assignments, and allow graders to manually grade for design.
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Improving student performance by evaluating how well students test their own programs
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- Edwards, S. H., & Perez-Quinones, M. A.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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- ACM
- Published
- 2008-06-30
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- 328-328
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- W2089010774
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- 256
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- 1
- FWCI
- 4.25
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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