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A Systematic Literature Review of Automated Feedback Generation for Programming Exercises

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Keuning, Hieke, Jeuring, Johan, Heeren, Bastiaan·2019·ACM Transactions on Computing Education
DOI 10.1145/3231711
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Formative feedback, aimed at helping students to improve their work, is an important factor in learning. Many tools that offer programming exercises provide automated feedback on student solutions. We have performed a systematic literature review to find out what kind of feedback is provided, which techniques are used to generate the feedback, how adaptable the feedback is, and how these tools are evaluated. We have designed a labelling to classify the tools, and use Narciss’ feedback content categories to classify feedback messages. We report on the results of coding a total of 101 tools. We have found that feedback mostly focuses on identifying mistakes and less on fixing problems and taking a next step. Furthermore, teachers cannot easily adapt tools to their own needs. However, the diversity of feedback types has increased over the past decades and new techniques are being applied to generate feedback that is increasingly helpful for students.

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Authors
Keuning, H., Jeuring, J., & Heeren, B.
Affiliations
  • Windesheim University of Applied Sciences (NL)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Open University of the Netherlands (NL)
ORCID
Venue
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
2018-09-28
Volume
19
Issue
1
Pages
1-43
ISSN
1946-6226 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1145/3231711
OpenAlex
W2894540915
Cited by
370
References
200
Citations by year
2026: 72 · 2025: 71 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 12
FWCI
2.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • ACM Transactions on Computing Education (publishedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • DSpace (Open University in the Netherlands) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (023.005.063)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
  • Social Sciences › Education › Student Assessment and Feedback
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
Keywords
automated feedback, programming exercises, formative feedback, programming education, adaptive feedback, tool evaluation

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