Teachers usually expect that any form of a continuous assessment (CA) should contribute significantly to the student learning process in introductory programming courses. To foster teachers to go beyond the current practices of a CA applied when to programming, from 2011 to 2014, we investigated the use of the Boca Online Contest Administrator (BOCA) system, an online judge used in programming ...

The lay judge system has considerable potential both in concept and form. To realize its full potential, the system needs to overcome various structural impediments and cultural challenges. This Article further contributes to the emerging discussion by detailing three related areas that merit attention and reform if the system is going to realize its full potential. Namely, the lay judge system...

We present the UvA-ILLC submission of the BEER metric to WMT 14 metrics task. BEER is a sentence level metric that can incorporate a large number of features combined in a linear model. Novel contributions are (1) efficient tuning of a large number of features for maximizing correlation with human system ranking, and (2) novel features that give smoother sentence level scores.

this is the obligation of judge in civil trial to finding substantive rule of law which is governing to a case in current resource of law. as an important role, it depends to have an accurate acknowledge about rule's resources and applying it in governing legal system. in iranian positive law we can see two rule of law concerning this obligation, first in principle 167 of constitution and ...

The juvenile court judge occupies a unique position. Like all other judges, the juvenile court judge must apply the law to resolve a dispute. For juvenile court judges handling abuse and neglect cases, however, the law requires a new type of role. The judge must monitor whether child welfare agencies have provided services to individual children and families sufficient to comply with federal an...

The article highlights the theoretical and practical issues of a special preventive function to combat crime, which is carried out by investigator, investigator (detective), prosecutor court (judge) within pre-trial investigation trial in criminal proceedings. Based on analysis current legislation, particular, specific tasks established for law enforcement agencies prevent offenses problems pra...