Program Peer Assessment Using Tagging Approach

Abstract

Most of die programming novices feel hard to learn programming skills, such as coding, tracing, debugging and testing. To help them learn programming well, computer program assessments which can find out the novices' programming misconception have been proposed. Although traditional computer program assessment can scow die student's program by executing die program with test cases, it is ineffective because die novices' programming misconception in the coding mistakes and tracing mistakes can not be singled out In die peer assessment activity, die learners can discuss their works with each other, so every learner can get die comments; about his/her work together with die score. This paper proposes a new computer program peer assessment to help die novices easily find out their programming misconception in the coding mistakes and tracing mistakes. An experiment has been done to evaluate the effectiveness of die new assessment. We may conclude that die process is useful to single out die leamer's coding and tracing problems, and that the tracing guidance is useful to direct the novice to trace peer's program.