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Machine learning techniques have been applied to the task of student modeling, more so in building tutors for acquiring programming skill. These were developed for various languages (Pascal, Prolog, Lisp, C++) and programming paradigms (procedural and declarative) but never for object-oriented programming in Java. JavaBugs builds a bug library automatically using discrepancies between a student and correct program. While other works analyze code snippets or UML diagrams to infer student knowledge of object-oriented design and programming, JavaBugs examines a complete Java program and identifies the most similar correct program to the student’s solution among a collection of correct solutions and builds trees of misconceptions using similarity measures and background knowledge. Experiments show that JavaBugs can detect the most similar correct program 97% of the time, and discover and detect 61.4% of student misconceptions identified by the expert.
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Suarez, M., Sison, R. (2008). Automatic Construction of a Bug Library for Object-Oriented Novice Java Programmer Errors. In: Woolf, B.P., Aïmeur, E., Nkambou, R., Lajoie, S. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5091. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69132-7_23
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