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Immediate Feedback Collaborative Code Tracing

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The Immediate-Feedback Collaborative Assessment Tool (IFCAT) is a web-based application originally designed to replace scratch-card based immediate feedback multiple choice quizzes. In this work, we detail IFCAT's code tracing ability, which allows for line-by-line immediate feedback of code tracing questions. This allows for scaffolded questions whereby subsequent questions on a test build upon previous results, without the danger of cascading errors caused my small mistakes. IFCAT also allows for think-pair-share and driver-passenger based collaborative assessment, and can be used on mobile devices for easy classroom integration.

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WCCCE '19: Proceedings of the 24th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education
May 2019
79 pages
ISBN:9781450367158
DOI:10.1145/3314994
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  1. CS1
  2. code tracing
  3. collaboration
  4. think-pair-share

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  • (2022)Automated Code Tracing Exercises for CS1Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Computing Education Practice10.1145/3498343.3498347(13-16)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2022
  • (2020)User-Centered Design of a Mobile Java Practice AppProceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3328778.3366942(1158-1164)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2020

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