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The continuous evaluation allows for the assessment of the progressive assimilation of concepts and the competences that must be achieved in a course. There are several ways to implement such continuous evaluation system. We propose auto-evaluation tests as a valuable tool for the student to judge his level of knowledge. Furthermore, these tests are also used as a small part of the continuous evaluation process, encouraging students to learn the concepts seen in the course, as they have the feeling that the time dedicated to this study will have an assured reward, binge able to answer correctly the questions in the continuous evaluation exams. New technologies are a great aid to improve the auto-evaluation experience both for the students and the teachers. In this research work we have compared the results obtained in courses where auto-evaluation tests were provided against courses where they were not provided, showing how the tests improve a set of quality metrics in the results of the course.
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The authors want to thank the financial support given by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity project TIN2017-88209-C2-R. Also, this analysis has been conducted under the Innovation Teaching Project helps (2015 and 2016) by the University of Seville and Pablo de Olavide University.
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Rubio-Escudero, C., Asencio-Cortés, G., Martínez-Álvarez, F., Troncoso, A., Riquelme, J.C. (2019). Impact of Auto-evaluation Tests as Part of the Continuous Evaluation in Programming Courses. In: Graña, M., et al. International Joint Conference SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18. SOCO’18-CISIS’18-ICEUTE’18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 771. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94120-2_54
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