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Integrating Computing to STEM Curriculum via CodeBoard

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Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016 (ICCSA 2016)

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Abstract

Introductory programming has always suffered from low performance rates. These low performance rates are closely tied to high failure rates and low retention in introductory programming classes. The goal of this research is to develop models and instrumentation capable of giving insight into STEM student performance, learning patterns and behavior. This insight is expected to shed some light on low performance rates and also pave the way for formative measures to be taken. CodeBoard is a programming platform capable of managing and assesse student programming via using a functional test-driven approach. Instructors develop programming assignments along with corresponding test cases, which are then used as grading templates to evaluate student programs. The second phase of this research involves developing models for measuring and capturing events relevant to student performance over time. The preliminary results show that this CodeBoard is promising.

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    Unit testing takes the smallest piece of testable software in the application, isolates it from the remainder of the code, and determine whether it behaves exactly as you expect.

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    Coverage testing measures the degree to which the source code of a program is tested by a particular test suite.

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    http://cunit.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html.

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    http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html.

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    NoSQL databases provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases. This allows for simplicity of design, horizontal scaling and finer control over availability.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported in part by U.S. Department of Education grant P120A080094 and by NSF CPATH grant CNS-0939138. The opinions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of these funding agencies.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, 32307, USA

    Hongmei Chi, Clement Allen & Edward Jones

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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  5. Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

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  6. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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  7. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  9. Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomm., Beijing, China

    Shangguang Wang

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Chi, H., Allen, C., Jones, E. (2016). Integrating Computing to STEM Curriculum via CodeBoard. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_36

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