This is a position paper in which I argue that massive open online programming courses can benefit by the application of automated assessment of programming assignments. I gathered success factors and identified concerns related to automatic assessment through the analysis of experiences other researchers have reported when designing and using automated assessment of programming assignments and...

This study presents our entry in this year’s Computers in Cardiology challenge. The challenge is the automated assessment of the electrocardiogram for predicting the onset of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation/flutter (PAF). By considering a large set of features derived from RR intervals, P wave shape and frequency representations of the P wave we compared the performance of a linear discriminant ...

In this paper we describe the heart of HARNESS, a legal knowledge system that is developed in the ESTRELLA project. This heart consists of a reasoning engine that performs legal assessment tasks, i.e. determining whether some case violates and/or complies with legal norms. This assessment module uses three knowledge bases cast in OWL 2: a domain ontology, a set of norms and a case description. ...

Computer simulation is used extensively both as an educational tool and within industry. It can be employed as a means of developing a new process or system or as a means of experimenting with an existing system. The simulation exercises described in this paper aim to provide students with the ability to use and create computer models. The input parameters for the simulations are based on stude...

This study presents the results of applying automated speech scoring technology to English spoken responses provided by non-native children in the context of an English proficiency assessment for middle school students. The assessment contains three diverse task types designed to measure a student’s English communication skills, and an automated scoring system was used to extract features and b...

Cognitive Agent-based Real-time Measurement and Assessment (CARMA) is an automated performance assessment methodology for team training applications. This paper describes CARMA particularly focusing on its application to automated performance assessment of team communications. With CARMA, performance assessment is incorporated into the agent’s reasoning, allowing performance assessment to be in...

Automated assessment systems have been employed in computer science (CS) courses at a number of different universities. Such systems are especially applicable in teaching algorithmic problem solving since they can automatically test if an algorithm has been correctly implemented, i.e., that it performs its specified function on a set of inputs. Being able to implement algorithms that work corre...

In this paper we report on research related to the provision of automated feedback based on a computer adaptive test (CAT), used in formative assessment. A cohort of 76 second year university undergraduates took part in a formative assessment with a CAT and were provided with automated feedback on their performance. A sample of students responded in a short questionnaire to assess their attitud...

Model-based and automated safety assessment has attracted significant academic and industrial interest over the past two decades. The research into such novel methods has focused on exploitation of design models, new compositional notations for model specification and algorithms for automated model analysis such as minimal cut set generation or fault tree synthesis. Many automated approaches ar...

The identification and grading of adverse events (AEs) during the conduct of clinical trials is a labor-intensive and error-prone process. This paper describes and evaluates a software tool developed by City of Hope to automate complex algorithms to assess laboratory results and identify and grade AEs. We compared AEs identified by the automated system with those previously assessed manually, t...