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Student help and automatic grading: The organization of a large service course

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The organization of a programming service course is described. The objective is combining high instructional quality with economic use of departmental resources. With undergraduate tutors who help in the classroom as well as in consulting sessions and with the help of an automatic grading system, it was possible to lower the cost to about $7 per student credit hour (quarter system) without sacrificing instructional quality. Some results obtained by automatic monitoring of the student's work on programming assignments and by interviews and questionnaires are given to back the above claim.

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 5, Issue 1
        Proceedings of the 3rd SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
        February 1973
        171 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/953053
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          SIGCSE '73: Proceedings of the third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          January 1973
          185 pages
          ISBN:9781450373753
          DOI:10.1145/800010

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