文档介绍：Evaluation of an Authentic Examination System (AES)
for Programming Courses
Torbjörn Jonsson, Pouria Loghmani and Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
Department puter and Information Science
Linköping University, Sweden
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puter environment necessary for this kind of
This paper describes our experience with an authentic examination. During the past year a new authentic
examination system for programming courses. We briefly examination system (AES) has been developed, where all
describe the architecture of the system, and present results the students and the examining teachers are connected to
of evaluating the system in real examination situations. the same system. The process, munication
Some of the factors studied in detail are the on-line and grading, is supported by this environment. In this paper
interactions between the students and examiners, the we describe the examination system and our initial
response times and their effects on the pressure evaluations of this system in a number of relatively large
experienced by student, the acceptance of the method examination sessions. The courses in question covered
among the students, and whether the examination form is programming in Ada and were taken by first and second
gender-neutral. year students.
During the past year we have evaluated the AES. The
instruments us