Thomas, Pete; Waugh, Kevin and Smith, Neil
(2008).
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Abstract
This paper describes a software tool that has been developed to help students learn to produce UML sequence diagrams (SDs) in the context of object modelling. The tool, called the SD-Exerciser, developed from an earlier tool for learning about entity-relationship diagrams, presents a student with a series of questions and invites the student to produce SDs that represent the interactions for the use cases embedded in the questions. The SD-Exerciser marks each attempt at a diagram and provides several feedback perspectives on the student’s answer. A new development is the ability to check a sequence diagram for syntax errors some of which the tool will attempt to repair. The SD-Exerciser incorporates an automatic marking algorithm based on the successful ERD marker and experiments to date show that it continues to be effective in the new situation.
| Item Type: | Conference Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2008 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) |
| Keywords: | students; learning objects; |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 19241 |
| Depositing User: | Kevin Waugh |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2009 14:39 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 13:34 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/19241 |
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