This report describes and evaluates the implementation and applicability of an automatic programming assignment grading system we named the online judge. We compared this with the manual grading system that is currently being used and showed that the automatic grading system, when implemented carefully, is more convenient, fairer, and more secure than the former. We have successfully tested the...

There are numerous of programming resources on the Internet, such as programming problems on online judge systems and program codes that solve these problems. Although these resources are valuable for students to practice programming, they are not effectively organized to facilitate students learning. Students and teachers may both hope that all these programming resources are organized as a tu...

With the growth in popularity of online instruction has also come the concern for accountability and the need to make adjustments and improvements in online programs. This paper describes the conceptualization and development of an evaluation system that can be used to judge online instructional efforts. The evaluation system addresses concerns of both program administrators and course instruct...

Teachers usually expect that any form of a continuous assessment (CA) should contribute significantly to the student learning process in introductory programming courses. To foster teachers to go beyond the current practices of a CA applied when to programming, from 2011 to 2014, we investigated the use of the Boca Online Contest Administrator (BOCA) system, an online judge used in programming ...

We present the UvA-ILLC submission of the BEER metric to WMT 14 metrics task. BEER is a sentence level metric that can incorporate a large number of features combined in a linear model. Novel contributions are (1) efficient tuning of a large number of features for maximizing correlation with human system ranking, and (2) novel features that give smoother sentence level scores.

The juvenile court judge occupies a unique position. Like all other judges, the juvenile court judge must apply the law to resolve a dispute. For juvenile court judges handling abuse and neglect cases, however, the law requires a new type of role. The judge must monitor whether child welfare agencies have provided services to individual children and families sufficient to comply with federal an...