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Learning programming requires practice. Timely feedback is one of the main drivers for learning and overcoming obstacles. In large lectures, however, social interactions and feedback are rather limited. Currently, there are no satisfactory ways for lecturers to detect and react on the most pressing issues directly in a lecture for various reasons such as students not daring to ask questions or too many erroneous submissions to inspect. This article proposes to combine Audience Response Systems and E-Assessment systems to tackle these issues. Within a lecture, students work on small programming assignments, upload their solutions, and then the lecturer can request a nearly instant overview of the correctness as well as the most common errors. This overview can help the lecturer to discuss different solutions strategies as well as the most common issues. Preliminary results of a case study with a prototype indicate that the approach is usable and formed useful clusters. Further development and research possibilities are outlined.
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Strickroth, S. (2023). Towards Live Coding and Instant Feedback on Common Issues in Large Lectures. In: Viberg, O., Jivet, I., Muñoz-Merino, P., Perifanou, M., Papathoma, T. (eds) Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures. EC-TEL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42682-7_58
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