Relevance of immediate feedback in the introduction to programming course Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © American Society for Engineering Education, 2019.This paper presents the results of integrating the use of an auto-grader tool in a Computer Science 1 course to personalize the learning process of students by allowing them to advance at their own pace when solving problems in class sessions. The use of this tool allowed us to give them immediate feedback for their solutions, once they verified their solution was correct they can move forward to more complex exercises without having to wait for the professor individual approval. To evaluate the strategy a statistic experiment has been carried out comparing grades of CS1 courses where the auto-grader tool has not been used with courses in which the tool was implemented. Finally, a questionnaire was applied to identify the student's satisfaction. The results show that, although the grades have not significantly improved, the perception of the strategy by students and professors is positive.

publication date

  • June 15, 2019