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A multi-agent platform for automatic assignment management

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Automatic assessment has become an important technique to reduce the grading load on teaching staff while providing an exhaustive evaluation environment for students. Several systems have evolved over the years providing sophisticated evaluation capabilities. However, fully automated assessment covers only a portion of the overall evaluation requirements in a typical Computer Science course. In this paper we present a tool for automatic assignment management that aims at satisfying several objectives. First, to support the large variety of assignment types and grading policies under the same paradigm by means of a phgeneric architecture. Second, to provide a phmulti-agent, scalable platform to cope with large enrollment classes. And third, to provide phfull connectivity with other administrative tools already present in educational institutions.

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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 34, Issue 3
      September 2002
      269 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/637610
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      • cover image ACM Conferences
        ITiCSE '02: Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
        June 2002
        262 pages
        ISBN:1581134991
        DOI:10.1145/544414

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