Terry Scott

Automated grading assistance for student programs

Some instructors have used various sofiware tools to assist in the task of evaluating student programming assignments. The ability to collect students’ work in a consistent form and test it automatically against a wide range of data can enhance students’ skills in program design, coding, analysis, and testing, and can free the instructor from much tedium, allowing more time for more rewarding activities.

Web with art and computer science

This paper describes the integrative, cooperative instruction in web design that applies art in technical instruction (programming). Students work in an interdisciplinary style drawing upon concepts from programming, web design, computer graphics, art, and design, both in the form of interdisciplinary studies and in a web construction and design class. Examples of student work support presentation.

Computerized Indices for Evaluating Student Response Patterns.

AbstractStudent response patterns can provide insights into individual student problems as well as subgroup differences. This paper describes the development of indices for overall aberrancy, tendencies to miss relatively easy items (possible bias, lack of concentration, test anxiety, etc.), tendencies to get correct more difficult items than would be expected based on the total score (possible guessing or unusual learning patterns), and a combination that tells how the latter two tendencies do or do not balance each other. Test results for 368 math students were used to demonstrate the indices. The software is available.