Three Phase Self-Reviewing System

Abstract

This paper introduces an electronic report submission system that helps effective learning of algorithms and programming. It proposes a three-phase reviewing system that involves self-reviewing of algorithms, self-reviewing of programs and staff reviewing. This is an improvement of our existing twophase reviewing system that only supports the latter two phases. In the additional phase for algorithmic checking, learners describe an algorithm graphically using PAD, compile it, and execute it to verify their algorithm first without being troubled by syntax of a programming language; this supplies effectiveness to the efficient self-reviewing system.

Monitoring system for the effective instruction based on the semi-automatic evaluation of programs during programming classroom lectures

“…Thus, a teacher prepares the correct program for each step in each exercise and translates each program into a standard algorithm st(j,k) for step S j,k in advance. The standard algorithm is represented using Extended PAD (Konishi, Suzuki, Haraikawa, and Itoh, 2007). Our evaluation system can convert a macro operation into various patterns of statements that implement the functions of the macro operation.…”

“…In addition, Extended PAD can represent various types of arbitrariness. Thus, Extended PAD can use the two extended expressions: “Non-ordering structure” and “Alternative structure.” Our proposed programming exercise monitoring system applied an automatic evaluation module to the student program based on comparing the standard algorithm with Extended PAD expressions derived from the student programs (Konishi et al, 2007).…”

“…We had developed an evaluation system that compared the PAD translated from a student program (s-PAD) with the PAD of a standard algorithm prepared in advance by the teacher (t-PAD), which classified student programs into four categories (Konishi et al, 2007). Our system calculates two matching rates to assess the student programs.…”