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Case-Based Evaluation of Novice Programs Hiroyoshi Watanabe, Masayuki Arai and Shigeo Takei School of Science and Engineering, Teikyo University 1-1 Toyosatodai Utsunomiya-shi Tochigi, 320-8551 Japan E-mail: {hiro,arai,takei}@ics.teikyo-u.ac.jp Abstract. This paper proposes a case-based evaluation assistant system that supports teachers in their evaluation work of students programs. The target evaluation tasks are to judge whether a students program satisfies the requirements of the given problem and to give advice to students. This paper describes the idea of a case-based evaluation assistant and the details of constructing a case-base and reasoning processes with cases on the implemented system. The case-bas ed evaluation assistant system compares a program submitted by a student with evaluation cases in the case-base. If some case matches the program, the system applies the judgment and advice on the case to the students program. The target programming language of the implemented evaluation assistant system is a simple assembly language. The implemented system has a function of evaluating programs actions in addition to case-based evaluation. The system had been utilized in actual classes for two years and the results showed that the system reduced the teachers’ evaluation work drastically. 1. Introduction In typical programming exercise classes, teachers workloads tend to be very heavy. Teachers give students various problems in order to