arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.CY2026-07-02
Automated grading of Linux/bash examinations using large language models: a four-level cognitive taxonomy approach
Manuel Alonso-Carracedo, Ruben Fernandez-Boullon, Pedro Celard, Francisco J. Rodriguez-Martinez, Lorena Otero-Cerdeira
Scalable and reliable grading of command-line examinations remains a challenge in computing education, where rising enrolments make manual marking difficult and rule-based autograders cannot handle partial credit, equivalent solutions, or syntactic variation. This paper evaluates…