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Improving Diagram Assessment in Mooshak

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Technology Enhanced Assessment (TEA 2017)

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Mooshak is a web system with support for assessment in computer science. It was originally developed for programming contest management but evolved to be used also as a pedagogical tool, capitalizing on its programming assessment features. The current version of Mooshak supports other forms of assessment used in computer science, such as diagram assessment. This form of assessment is supported by a set of new features, including a diagram editor, a graph comparator, and an environment for integration of pedagogical activities. The first attempt to integrate these features to support diagram assessment revealed a number of shortcomings, such as the lack of support for multiple diagrammatic languages, ineffective feedback, and usability issues. These shortcomings were addressed by the creation of a diagrammatic language definition language, the introduction of a new component for feedback summarization and a redesign of the diagram editor. This paper describes the design and implementation of these features, as well as their validation.

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Notes

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    http://mooshak2.dcc.fc.up.pt.

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    https://products.office.com/en/visio/flowchart-software.

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    https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia.

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    https://www.jgraph.com/.

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    http://gojs.net/latest/index.html.

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    https://www.lucidchart.com/.

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    https://basicarchstudiomanual.wordpress.com/.

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    http://mooshak2.dcc.fc.up.pt/kora.

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This work is financed by the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation – COMPETE 2020 Programme, and by National Funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961.

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Correia, H., Leal, J.P., Paiva, J.C. (2018). Improving Diagram Assessment in Mooshak. In: Ras, E., Guerrero Roldán, A. (eds) Technology Enhanced Assessment. TEA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97807-9_6

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