| Summary: | Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012. === Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78). === Students are often asked to write code during lab sessions in software engineering courses. However, the overall progress and level of understanding of lecture material during the course of a single lab session is difficult for instructors to gauge, because they are limited in the amount of direct interaction they can have with students. We have built CollabodeTA, a web application optimized for Apple's iPad on top of the Collabode real-time collaborative web IDE. CollabodeTA is a tool that takes advantage of keystroke-by-keystroke and action-by- action data intercepted through Collabode to aid software lab instructors in determining student progress and understanding on in-class coding assignments. User studies using TAs from MIT's 6.005 Elements of Software Construction course and data recorded from a semester of 6.005 recitations with in-class coding assignments indicate that the mobile instructor interface shows potential as a useful tool for guiding the pace and content of such recitations based on demonstrated student understanding. Furthermore, the CollabodeTA mobile instructor interface illustrates a new use case for the Collabode real-time collaborative web IDE. === by Angela N. Chang. === M.Eng.
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