Automated assessment system as a supportive tool for teaching programming in Academic Secondary School of SUT

Abstract

Automated assessment systems are used in education as tools to support teaching programming and algorithms as well as preparing students for challenging informatics competitions. They reduce the teacher’s workload connected with manual verification of correctness and efficiency of computer programs. Furthermore, they enable learning of computer programming to be taken outside the traditional classroom as varied in difficulty tasks can be accessed and solved at anytime and in any place. Academic Secondary School of Silesian University of Technology has deployed an automated assessment system in order to support computer programming education. The aim of this work is to find out how students’ skills and interests in programming affect their feelings while using Szkopuł platform. For this purpose, a survey was conducted among students, and the results were analyzed in terms of the theory of transactional analysis.