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High-quality tasks for e-assessment in mathematics
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2022-01-27
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Institut
Volume
41
Issue
4
Start Page
270
End Page
279
Citation
Teaching Mathematics and its Applications 41 (4): 270-279 (2022-01-27)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed
true
This paper is dedicated to e-assessment in mathematics and the development of the corresponding electronic tasks. Due to its electronic nature e-assessment can be used to efficiently provide a huge number of tasks for training. This makes it a valuable tool for large classes, which are typical for mathematics as a service subject. In order to develop good tasks, one can address different aspects, e.g. the randomization of problems under the restriction that they are comparable with regard to fairness, providing open-ended tasks to demonstrate understanding rather than guesses and the handling of errors, i.e. how to cope with mistakes made by students. When it comes to demonstrate understanding, mathematical proofs play a prominent role and we present a way how to transform them to an electronic task in form of a proof puzzle. A further aspect of tasks is their authenticity with regard to today’s work environment, which goes along with the application of specialized software. In this contribution we describe how to deal with each of the mentioned aspects of tasks.
Subjects
E-Assessment
Randomization
Proof puzzle
Adaptive tests
DDC Class
510: Mathematik