The individualized support by the teacher is unfeasible with classes around 40 students in the introductory programming courses. This paper reports an attempt to increase the frequency of assessments with an Introductory Programming class by creating smaller intervals between evaluations so that both students and teachers were aware of the evolution of the class throughout the semester. The article presents the results regarding students' performance and motivation, identifying a correlation between the motivation and the performance of the evaluations, but identifying unsatisfactory results in relation to the final averages and approval rates.