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  • Project TOMO: immediate feedback enabling service in teaching programming [Elektronski vir]
    Lokar, Matija
    Teaching programming is demanding since it is not enough to explain the ideas and terms. Programming is a skill and mastering a skill requires a lot of practice and thus inevitably a lot of mistakes. ... Most beginner mistakes are easy to correct if the students are properly directed. If the teacher's assistance is not available immediately, the students get stuck and their progress slows down considerably. Good and immediate feedback is a key component that ensures fast success. Therefore a tool enabling quick feedback is very useful in the teaching process. It is no wonder that services providing automated programme assessment (SAAP) have become a very popular choice in programming courses. The teacher at our Faculty agreed that using such a service could improve our teaching. Unfortunately most such services already available had considerable shortcomings. The biggest was that the feedback was more or less limited to the information whether or not the result matched the expected outcome. Therefore we developed a new web service called Project Tomo ( https://www.projekt-tomo.si ). It is completely open and available to all. There are more than 4000 programming exercises that can be adapted and re-used in new courses. At the moment the service is used by over 30 educational establishments, most of which are high schools. The article describes the options available in the service and presents its use. It is shown how the analysis of the solution attempts can pinpoint the students' false ideas and therefore serves as the basis for improving feedback. User opinions are given as well.
    Source: CSERC'2019 [Elektronski vir] : the collection of the CSERC submissions 2019 (Str. [105-110])
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2019
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 18809689

    Link(s):

    https://www.ou.nl/documents/49898/761136/CSERC_19_collected_papers_smaller.pdf/d1eed513-4ecf-edcb-a328-104d9167be4b

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