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Exam creation / Testing students with Mathematica

POSTED BY: Eva Racz
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The most cost-effective solution, including the cost of your time spent in (a) infrastructure development and (b) writing questions is to use an existing web-based homework system. One such that comes with an extensive problem library — and that's free if you run it on your own server — is WeBWork: http://webwork.maa.org.

There are several good commercial systems, which are often available bundled with particular textbooks and have libraries of problems already organized by the textbook's chapters and sections. One such I know well and highly recommend is WebAssign: http://webassign.net

Such systems are particularly helpful for high-enrollment sections, owing to the reporting features, etc.

POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg
POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov
POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg

I think what would be really interesting and useful, would be if a system actually (perhaps through pattern recognition) could verify the students derivation of the solution and then be able to give partial credit for every correct step toward the solution.

POSTED BY: Kay Herbert
POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg

I would definitely check out the ability to create webforms with FormFunctions. Your students don't need to have a M- license. And you would just need a low tier of the development platform (or Mathematica if you wanted to work offline). You can do free form input field, multiple choice etc.

Here's the page for learning more about the function.

Here's a basic example of a web form that generates the population of a specific country.

POSTED BY: Adriana O'Brien
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