Experiments in the automatic marking of ER-diagrams

Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 158-162

  Thomas, Pete ^a   Waugh, Kevin ^a   Smith, Neil ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic grading; Diagram understanding; Entity relationship diagrams; Teaching tool

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GRADING; DIAGRAM UNDERSTANDING; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP; TEACHING TOOL;

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; FEEDBACK; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 29844441461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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