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A flexible, extensible online testing system for mathematics

Author(s) -

Tim Passmore,

Leigh Brookshaw,

Harry Butler

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

australasian journal of educational technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1449-5554

pISSN - 1449-3098

DOI - 10.14742/ajet.919

Subject(s) - scripting language , computer science , span (engineering) , flexibility (engineering) , programming language , symbolic computation , parsing , point (geometry) , algebra over a field , mathematics , pure mathematics , statistics , civil engineering , engineering , mathematical analysis , geometry

An online testing system developed for entry-skills testing of first-year university students in algebra and calculus is described. The system combines the open-source computer algebra system Maxima with computer scripts to parse student answers, which are entered using standard mathematical notation and conventions. The answers can involve structures such as: lists, variable-precision-floating-point numbers, integers and algebra. This flexibility allows more sophisticated testing designs than the multiple choice, or exact match, paradigms common in other systems, and the implementation is entirely vendor neutral. Experience using the system and ideas for further\uddevelopment are discussed

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