Assessment

This page is not quite ready: the documentation is still being written! (Oct 2023).

The race server does not perform any assessment. There’s a lot of variation on how a development project like this could be assessed. There’s also scope for a lot of opinion as to how a dev project like this should be assessed.

We will be adding some notes based on our general observations about how we assessed these projects.

There’s no doubt that the most benefit to the students came about as a result of working (even remotely) with the oversight of a member of staff. The value of learning on a programming project is maximised by intervention and support at the moment of solving the problem — assessment of submitted work, and feedback relating to programming therein that the student reads weeks after having completed it may be important for academic progression but probably isn’t a useful way to develop understanding or capability.