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Assessing mathematics through Moodle quizzes
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Estela, M. Rosa |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | We are offering an important improvement to an existing Moodle course based on Calculus regarding assessment through WIRISQuizzes. The contents of the course are adapted to the ones of a Calculus subject in any Engineering high degree or scientific Bachelor, but there is something that makes this course different from others. Not only do we offer a book with all the theory concepts of the subject, but also a digital version of the book with interactive exercises and laboratories. 1 WIRISQuizzes. What is it? WIRISQuizzes is a new system based on the WIRIS CAS Techonology, an online Computer Algebra System which allows to compute mathematical calculations on-line as well as produce mathematical contents, that is growing up to provide Moodle questions with random and new values. The main goal of this software is to allow the course instructors or professors to create a random family of quizz questions just by programming one through variables that can take random data. It is: every time the question is opened to be done, it displays random and new data values. Moreover, this new and random values are calculated online and in real time. It is quite easy to provide a Moodle course with this technology: it is only necessary to install the WIRIS Quizzes plug-in in the settings of the desired course. This plug-in creates a new cell at the end of the editing chart of the questions called Math Engine WIRIS Quizzes that will let us create this new contents. Depending on the question type, different WIRIS technological options are displayed in this cell but, all of them have a commom element: the WIRIS software. The WIRIS software is no more than a WIRIS CAS with a library called variables. There must be the definition of the random values that will appear in the questions, both in the wording question and in the possible answers, and the (math) program which recalculates the result answer. With this, every time the question is displayed, it gives/shows new data values, altrough the structure of the question is the same. These new and random values are called variables and they are calculated online and in real time. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://web.mit.edu/~jsaa/www/papers/WQ.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
