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PAP900: A dataset of semantic relationships between affective words in Portuguese Open

André Fernandes dos Santos, José Paulo Leal, Rui A. Alves, Teresa Jacques · 2025

Incremental Repair Feedback on Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2025

Automated assessment tools for programming assignments have become increasingly popular in computing education. These tools offer a cost-effective and highly available way to provide timely and consistent feedback to students. However, whe…

Clustering source code from automated assessment of programming assignments Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2024

Clustering of source code is a technique that can help improve feedback in automated program assessment. Grouping code submissions that contain similar mistakes can, for instance, facilitate the identification of students’ difficulties to …

Comparing semantic graph representations of source code: The case of automatic feedback on programming assignments Open

José Miguel Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2024

Static source code analysis techniques are gaining relevance in automated assessment of programming assignments as they can provide less rigorous evaluation and more comprehensive and formative feedback. These techniques focus on source co…

Bibliometric Analysis of Automated Assessment in Programming Education: A Deeper Insight into Feedback Open

José Carlos Paiva, Álvaro Figueira, José Paulo Leal · 2023

Learning to program requires diligent practice and creates room for discovery, trial and error, debugging, and concept mapping. Learners must walk this long road themselves, supported by appropriate and timely feedback. Providing such feed…

PROGpedia: Collection of source-code submitted to introductory programming assignments Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2023

Learning how to program is a difficult task. To acquire the required skills, novice programmers must solve a broad range of programming activities, always supported with timely, rich, and accurate feedback. Automated assessment tools play …

PROGpedia Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2022

This dataset consists of the submissions to 16 programming exercises in Mooshak proposed in multiple years within the 2003-2020 timespan to undergraduate Computer Science students at the Faculty of Sciences from the University of Porto. In…

PROGpedia Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2022

This dataset consists of the submissions to 16 programming exercises in Mooshak proposed in multiple years within the 2003-2020 timespan to undergraduate Computer Science students at the Faculty of Sciences from the University of Porto. In…

PROGpedia Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Álvaro Figueira · 2022

This dataset consists of the submissions to 16 programming exercises in Mooshak proposed in multiple years within the 2003-2020 timespan to undergraduate Computer Science students at the Faculty of Sciences from the University of Porto. In…

Students’ Usability Evaluation of the FGPE Gamified Programming Learning Environment Open

Jakub Swacha, Filip Miernik, Marzena Ignasiak, Raffaele Montella, Ciro De Vita , et al. · 2022

Gamified learning environments can effectively support programming education only if their usability satisfies students. Here, we report the results of the usability evaluation of the FGPE PLE, an open-source gamification-supporting web pl…

Modelling an eLearning environment for learning programming languages Open

Ricardo Queirós, José Paulo Leal · 2022

It is widely accepted that solving programming exercises is fundamental to learn how to program. Nevertheless, solving exercises is only effective if students receive an assessment on their work. An exercise solved wrong will consolidate a…

Managing Gamified Programming Courses with the FGPE Platform Open

José Carlos Paiva, Ricardo Queirós, José Paulo Leal, Jakub Swacha, Filip Miernik · 2022

E-learning tools are gaining increasing relevance as facilitators in the task of learning how to program. This is mainly a result of the pandemic situation and consequent lockdown in several countries, which forced distance learning. Insta…

An Open-Source Gamified Programming Learning Environment (Short Paper) Open

José Carlos Paiva, Ricardo Queirós, José Paulo Leal, Jakub Swacha, Filip Miernik · 2021

The importance of e-learning tools facilitating the process of learning to program is growing, especially as the pandemic-caused lockdown enforced distance learning in many countries. The key success factor in this process is the provision…

Mooshak’s Diet Update: Introducing YAPExIL Format to Mooshak (Short Paper) Open

José Carlos Paiva, Ricardo Queirós, José Paulo Leal · 2021

Practice is pivotal in learning programming. As many other automated assessment tools for programming assignments, Mooshak has been adopted by numerous educational practitioners to support them in delivering timely and accurate feedback to…

Derzis: A Path Aware Linked Data Crawler Open

André Fernandes dos Santos, José Paulo Leal · 2021

Consuming Semantic Web data presents several challenges, from the number of datasets it is composed of, to the (very) large size of some of those datasets and the uncertain availability of querying endpoints. According to its core principl…

Programming Exercises Interoperability: The Case of a Non-Picky Consumer Open

Ricardo Queirós, José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal · 2021

Problem-solving is considered one of the most important skills to retain in the coming decades for building a modern and proactive society. In this realm, computer programming learning is vital to enrich those skills. Practicing in this ar…

Matching User Interfaces to Assess Simple Web Applications (Short Paper) Open

Marco Primo, José Paulo Leal · 2021

This paper presents ongoing research aiming at the automatic assessment of simple web applications, like those used in introductory web technologies courses. The distinctive feature of the proposed approach is a web interface matching proc…

Fostering Programming Practice through Games Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Ricardo Queirós · 2020

Loss of motivation is one of the most prominent concerns in programming education as it negatively impacts time dedicated to practice, which is crucial for novice programmers. Of the distinct techniques introduced in the literature to enga…

GEdIL—Gamified Education Interoperability Language Open

Jakub Swacha, José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Ricardo Queirós, Raffaele Montella , et al. · 2020

The paper introduces Gamified Education Interoperability Language (GEdIL), designed as a means to represent the set of gamification concepts and rules applied to courses and exercises separately from their actual educational content. This …

Yet Another Programming Exercises Interoperability Language (Short Paper) Open

José Carlos Paiva, Ricardo Queirós, José Paulo Leal, Jakub Swacha · 2020

This paper introduces Yet Another Programming Exercises Interoperability Language (YAPExIL), a JSON format that aims to: (1) support several kinds of programming exercises behind traditional blank sheet activities; (2) capitalize on expres…

Hy2Green: Remote laboratory of hydrogen technologies as an e-learning tool for training new professionals adapted to the new European energy model Open

F.J. Vivas, Rachel González García, J.J. Caparrós, Francisca Segura, José Manuel Andújar , et al. · 2020

Game-Based Coding Challenges to Foster Programming Practice Open

José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Ricardo Queirós · 2020

The practice is the crux of learning to program. Automated assessment plays a key role in enabling timely feedback without access to teachers but alone is insufficient to engage students and maximize the outcome of their practice. Graphica…

A Roadmap to Gamify Programming Education Open

Jakub Swacha, Ricardo Queirós, José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal, Sokol Kosta , et al. · 2020

Learning programming relies on practicing it which is often hampered by the barrier of difficulty. The combined use of automated assessment, which provides fast feedback to the students experimenting with their code, and gamification, whic…

Integrating Multi-Source Data into HandSpy (Short Paper) Open

Hristo Orlinov Valkanov, José Paulo Leal · 2020

To study how emotions affect people in expressive writing, scientists require tools to aid them in their research. The researchers at M-BW use an Experiment Management System, called HandSpy to store and analyze the hand-written production…

DAOLOT: A Semantic Browser Open

João Bruno Silva, André Santos, José Paulo Leal · 2020

The goal of the Semantic Web is to allow the software agents around us and AIs to extract information from the Internet as easily as humans do. This semantic web is a network of connected graphs, where relations between concepts and entiti…

Visualization of path patterns in semantic graphs Open

José Paulo Leal · 2019

Graphs with a large number of nodes and edges are difficult to visualize. Semantic graphs add to the challenge since their nodes and edges have types and this information must be mirrored in the visualization. A common approach to cope wit…

Defining Requirements for a Gamified Programming Exercises Format Open

Jakub Swacha, Ricardo Queirós, José Carlos Paiva, José Paulo Leal · 2019

Computer programming is a complex domain both to teach and learn. This incited endeavors to find methods that could mitigate at least some of the existing barriers. In the last years, automatic assessment has been playing an important role…

Quarmic: A Data-Driven Web Development Framework Open

Pedro Miguel Pereira Cunha, José Paulo Leal · 2019

Quarmic is a web framework for rapid prototyping of web applications. Its main goal is to facilitate the development of web applications by providing a high level of abstraction that hides Web communication complexities. This framework all…

Integration of ePortfolios in learning management systems Open

Ricardo Queirós, Lino Oliveira, José Paulo Leal, Fernando Moreira · 2018

The LMS plays a decisive role in most eLearning environments. Al-though they integrate many useful tools for managing eLearning activities, they must also be effectively integrated with other specialized systems typically found in an educa…

EmoSpell, a Morphological and Emotional Word Analyzer Open

Maria Gonçalves-Maia, José Paulo Leal · 2018

The analysis of sentiments, emotions, and opinions in texts is increasingly important in the current digital world. The existing lexicons with emotional annotations for the Portuguese language are oriented to polarities, classifying words …

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