Exercise specification for collaboration, reusing and automatically generating evaluations

Abstract

We propose a language definition to specify exercises with embedded variability. Using this language it is possible to process exercise specifications on a computer with the benefits of allowing an efficient retrieval and automatically generating different test versions for each of the different available platforms. These exercises, defined according to the previous specifications, should be ideally stored in a public repository. We seek to promote a collaborative environment among educators from different universities to create, share, collaborate and reuse exercises in order to make continuous students evaluation more efficient, less time consuming and less vulnerable to cheating. We also present the programs we developed to process exercises and generate evaluations.