Bartolini, A. C. (2024, July), GIFTS - Integrating MATLAB Grader into an Engineering Computing Course  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48609

\bibitem{asee_peer_48609}
  Bartolini, A. C. (2024, July), \emph{GIFTS - Integrating MATLAB Grader into an Engineering Computing Course}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48609

Andrew Charles Bartolini.  "GIFTS - Integrating MATLAB Grader into an Engineering Computing Course".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48609 Internet.  24 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_48609}
  Andrew Charles Bartolini.
  "GIFTS - Integrating MATLAB Grader into an Engineering Computing Course".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48609 Internet.  24 Feb, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This GIFTS (Great Ideas for Teaching Students) paper discusses the implementation of MATLAB Grader into a first-year engineering computing course. MATLAB Grader is an automatic grading platform for MATLAB files that is offered by MATHWORKS. MATLAB Grader allows students to submit code that is assessed through a variety of instructor created tests. The student submissions can be specified to be in the form of a user-defined function or a script. The tests typically check the values of variables, inclusion of keywords or functions, the absence of keywords or functions, or custom code with assessments created by the instructor. 

MATLAB Grader was introduced into an engineering computing course at a medium-sized, private, Midwestern, residential university in the Spring 2023 and has been used again in the Spring 2024 semester. MATLAB Grader has been utilized to replace smaller active learning activity assignments. These assignments are started before the end of a given lecture and completed before the start of the next lecture. The assignments are a means to promote retrieval learning and ensure that the concepts from the previous lecture are reinforced before the next lecture. MATLAB Grader is used for problems including variable assignment, mathematical operations, loops, conditionals, data structures, cell arrays, user-defined functions, plotting, arrays, and vectors. MATLAB Grader was not used to replace the longer homework assignments. 

The study will include feedback from students about their thoughts and opinions of using MATLAB Grader instead of the alternative method of submitting the files that were then hand graded within a week’s time period by teaching assistant graders. The paper will also outline opinions of the teaching assistant graders on their observations of using MATLAB grader from a grading perspective. 
AU  - Andrew Charles Bartolini
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - GIFTS - Integrating MATLAB Grader into an Engineering Computing Course
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