Effective electronic marking for on-line assessment

Abstract

In response to the demands of increasing student numbers, the BOSS system for submission and assessment has been constructed to enable student programming assignments to be submitted and tested on-line. More recent developments of this system have been concerned with the addition of electronic marking facilities that incorporate both automated marking, resulting from the automated testing, and manual marking in a secure environment. This paper briefly reviews the system and describes in detail the electronic marksheets , their functionality, and their user-interface.

AlgoWeb: A Web-Based Environment for Learning Introductory Programming

“…AlgoWeb provides the means for reducing such problem by making available some examples of input and output data for each problem, and a tool for checking whether the solution solves a problem from the problem portfolio. Such tool already exists for programming languages like Java (e.g., RoboProf (Daly, 1999)) and Scheme (e.g., BOSS (Joy and Luck, 1998)).…”

The backwash effect on SQL skills grading

“…In our department we have introduced an online test to grade students' SQL skills in the introductory database subjects, using software that has been developed in-house specifically to address the issues raised in section 2. There appear to be several systems available that automate submission and testing of students' programs for grading, for example, BOSS [6] but the authors have not been able to find software for effectively grading SQL query formulation skills.…”