Educational data mining and learning analytics promise better understanding of student
behavior and knowledge, as well as new information on the tacit factors that contribute to …

Achievement badges are a form of gamification that are used in an attempt to increase user
engagement and motivation in various systems. A badge is typically a graphical icon that …

Achievement badges are a form of gamification that can be used to motivate users and to
encourage desired actions. In this study, we describe and evaluate the use of achievement …

In online learning environments where automatic assessment is used, students often resort
to harmful study practices such as procrastination and trial-and-error. In this paper, we study …

Automated Programming Assessment Systems (APAS) are used for overcoming problems
associated with manually managed programming assignments, such as objective and …

Autograders are an invaluable tool for deploying assessments in large classes. However
students sometimes rely on the autograder in place of careful thought for ways to improve to …

Online education supported by digital courseware will radically alter higher education in
ways that we cannot predict. New technologies such as MOOCs and Khan Academy have …

Automated programming assessment systems are useful tools to track the learning progress
of students automatically and thereby reduce the workload of educators. They can also be …

Computer-based assessment is a useful tool for handling large-scale classes and is
extensively used in the automated assessment of student programming assignments in …

Computer aided assessment systems enable the collection of exact time and date
information on students' activity on a course. These activity patterns reflect students' study …