CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT WITH FLIPPED LEARNING AND AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT

Numerous studies claim that one of the practices that improves student performance is

continuous assessment, since it encourages work on the subject and allows for better class

performance. Often, this continuous assessment is implemented with 1 or 2 partial exams,

which causes an improvement of the performance, but sometimes they become for the

students "early final exams" with the consequent disturbance in the usual preparation of the

semester. In this article, we describe and analyze a method of continuous assessment

implemented in a second-year programming subject of the School of Engineering of the

University of Navarra since the 2016-2017 academic year. Moreover, flipped learning approach

was introduced in the academic year 2019-2020, with the consequent (but slight) modification

of the evaluation method. To implement continuous assessment an automated evaluation tool

has been developed both for quizzes and for the correction of programming exercises. The

result is a continuous work of the student, good grades and satisfaction from both the students

and the teacher.