Abstracts
Abstract
This practical report addresses a teaching activity that consists in students submitting small programming Challenges on a web platform as part of an Introduction to Programming course (CS1). An automatic correction system called CAFÉ assesses the Challenges and provides each student with immediate feedback and feedforward on both processes and products. This report focuses on the students’ acceptance of the tool by analysing promising results with respect to student participation, performance, and perception.
Keywords:
- CAFÉ,
- Programming Challenges,
- automatic feedback,
- automatic feedforward,
- acceptance,
- CS1
Résumé
Ce rapport porte sur une activité d’apprentissage qui consiste, pour les étudiants, à soumettre des Challenges de Programmation via un site Internet, dans le contexte d’un cours d’Introduction à la Programmation (CS1). Un système de correction automatique, appelé CAFÉ, évalue ces Challenges et transmet immédiatement à l’étudiant·e du feedback et du feedforward, autant à propos de sa performance que du processus qui y a mené. Ce rapport se concentre sur la réception, par les étudiant·e·s, de cet outil, en analysant des résultats prometteurs concernant la participation, la performance et la perception des étudiants.
Mots-clés :
- CAFÉ,
- Challenges de Programmation,
- feedback automatique,
- feedforward automatique,
- réception,
- CS1
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