UvA Grassroots for ICT Innovation in Education
Thomas Mensink and Jan van Gemert have been awarded an UvA Grassroots for their proposal 'Online-PAS: Evaluation of Python Assignments for Scoring and Direct Feedback'. The goal of UvA Grassroots is to use ICT for innovations in education.
Thomas Mensink (researcher Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam): ' The goal of the "Online-PAS" proposal is to allow students to obtain immediate feedback on the correctness of python code. The solution works with a unit-testing style where students are given a predefined function specification which they have to complete. For evaluation the server sends some random generated data to the student where the function is called to obtain the output, then the server checks if the outcome matches the desired outcome. We believe that such an online evaluation is useful for almost any programming lab assignment and we will share our code, example exercises and our knowledge in a few blog posts.'