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OnlineProver: First Experience with Teaching Formal Proofs

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: OnlineProver is an interactive proof checker, tailored for the educational setting. The main features are a user-friendly interface for editing and checking proofs, and a DSL for specifying deduction systems and exercises about them. The user interfaceprovides feedback directly in the derivation, based on error messages provided by a proof checking web-service. A basic philosophy of the tool, is that it should aid the student, while still maintain that the students construct the proofs as if it was on paper. We gathered feedback on the tool through a questionnaire, and we provide a comprehensive evaluation of its effectiveness, assessing its impact on teaching and learning approaches, along with technical aspects.The evaluation showed that the students were satisfied with using OnlineProver as part of the teaching and gave a first conformation of the learning approach behind. This gives clear directions for future developments.

Source: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning

DOI: 10.5324/nikt.6205

Authors: Joachim Kristensen, Ján Perháč, Michael Kirkedal Thomsen, Lars Tveito, Oleks Shturmov, Samuel Novotný, Sergej Chodarev

Institutions: University of Oslo, Technical University of Košice, University of Copenhagen

Language: English

Topic: Teaching and Learning Programming

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4404828015

FWCI: 1.184

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