Improving student performance by evaluating how well students test their own programs

Evaluating Students ' Assignments by Assessing How Well Students Test Their Own Code

Problem and Motivation: Testing accounts for 50% cost of software development. Because of the necessity of testing, educators are including more and more software testing[1] in programming [2] and software engineering courses [3, 4]. Current classroom assessment systems (e.g.,Web-CAT, ASSYST, Marmoset) use code coverage to evaluate how well students test their own code. Code coverage measures t...

Student readiness to start their own business

Metacognitive strategies in student learning: do students practise retrieval when they study on their own?

Basic research on human learning and memory has shown that practising retrieval of information (by testing the information) has powerful effects on learning and long-term retention. Repeated testing enhances learning more than repeated reading, which often confers limited benefit beyond that gained from the initial reading of the material. Laboratory research also suggests that students lack me...

Graduate Students In Their Own Words

Paul Corral (American University) Most endogenous sample selection issues have been dealt with variants of Heckman's selection model. The model relies on the assumption of normality. However, when dealing with data where the data generating process is unknown, and the data may be less than ideal an information theoretic approach may be more suitable. During the summer I have been working on imp...

Evaluating and Improving Test Efficiency

Test efficiency measures the cost-effectiveness of a test organisation and it is measured by dividing the number of defects found in a test by the effort needed to perform the test. This thesis project investigated whether the Mobile Positioning Centre (MPC) site at Ericsson AB could improve their test efficiency or not. The purpose of the project was to identify areas that could increase the t...