Currently, it is difficult to effectively grade students’ programming assignments. As a result, the objective of this work was to create an Automatic Programming Assessment Tool (APAT) with a Bloom Taxonomy-mapped grading rubric. To guarantee that such a novel tool has appropriate quality attributes, the development of APAT was carried out based on the Software Engineering (SE) principles, namely software specification, software development, and software verification. The evaluation of this novel tool focused on its usability and effectiveness. The assessment of the tool’s usability was carried out using Heuristic Assessment involving eight lecturers from the Faculty of Art, Computing, and Creative Industry, Sultan Idris Education University where data were gathered through WebUSE. The assessment of the tool’s effectiveness in assessing student learning was performed through Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results of the analysis of the survey data showed that the le.....

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