Programming assignments are a common form of assessment in introductory courses and often require substantial work to complete. Students must therefore plan and manage their time carefully, especially leading up to published deadlines. Although time management is an important metacognitive skill that students must develop, it is rarely taught explicitly. Prior research has explored various approaches for reducing procrastination and other unproductive behaviours in students, but these are often ineffective or impractical in large courses. In this work, we investigate a scalable intervention that incentivizes students to begin work early. We provide automatically generated feedback to students who submit their work-in-progress prior to two f...
© 2018 IEEE. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final...
Introductory programming courses around the world use automatic assessment. Automatic assessment for...
Every year, millions of students learn how to write programs. Learning activities for beginners almo...
How students are assessed has a powerful effect on their strategies for studying and their learning....
Course exercises are typically given so that the time it takes to finish them fits in the time const...
This paper describes the work that has been undertaken to improve the quantity and quality of feedba...
Teaching introductory programming modules in higher education is highly challenging. In particular,...
In the acquisition of software-development skills, feedback that pinpoints errors and explains means...
Autograding systems are being increasingly deployed to meet the challenges of teaching programming a...
Teachers often preach for their students to start working on assignments early. There is even a fair...
Research shows the majority of college students engage in procrastination, potentially hurting their...
Providing feedback on programming assignments manually is a tedious, error prone, and time-consuming...
Two important questions regarding automated submission and testing systems are: What kind of feedbac...
Formal feedback on assessments is given to students half way through the semester for a ...
High failure rates in introductory programming courses testify that learning to program is challengi...
© 2018 IEEE. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final...
Introductory programming courses around the world use automatic assessment. Automatic assessment for...
Every year, millions of students learn how to write programs. Learning activities for beginners almo...
How students are assessed has a powerful effect on their strategies for studying and their learning....
Course exercises are typically given so that the time it takes to finish them fits in the time const...
This paper describes the work that has been undertaken to improve the quantity and quality of feedba...
Teaching introductory programming modules in higher education is highly challenging. In particular,...
In the acquisition of software-development skills, feedback that pinpoints errors and explains means...
Autograding systems are being increasingly deployed to meet the challenges of teaching programming a...
Teachers often preach for their students to start working on assignments early. There is even a fair...
Research shows the majority of college students engage in procrastination, potentially hurting their...
Providing feedback on programming assignments manually is a tedious, error prone, and time-consuming...
Two important questions regarding automated submission and testing systems are: What kind of feedbac...
Formal feedback on assessments is given to students half way through the semester for a ...
High failure rates in introductory programming courses testify that learning to program is challengi...
© 2018 IEEE. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final...
Introductory programming courses around the world use automatic assessment. Automatic assessment for...
Every year, millions of students learn how to write programs. Learning activities for beginners almo...