scholarly journals Creating mathematics formative assessments using LaTeX, PDF forms and computer algebra

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Herbert ◽  
Dmitry Demskoi ◽  
Kerrie Cullis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Computer Algebra ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Mathematics Assessments ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Assessment Design

Formative assessment benefits both students and teaching academics. In particular, formative assessment in mathematics subjects enables both students and teaching academics to assess individual performance and understanding through students’ responses. Over the last decade, educational technologies and learning management systems (LMSs) are used to support formative assessment design. In mathematics, this is problematic because of the inflexibility of LMS and educational technology tools.  Automating formative assessment generation and marking to support mathematics learning is made possible by utilising specific software and technologies in new ways. This paper proposes a new method of creating mathematics formative assessments using LaTeX and PDF forms in conjunction with a computer algebra system (e.g., Maple), independent of an LMS.  This method is implemented in undergraduate mathematics subjects servicing non-mathematics–focused higher education courses. The method generates individualised assessments that are automatically marked. Results show that the method provides the teaching academic with a more efficient way of designing formative mathematics assessments without compromising the effectiveness of the assessment task. This study contributes to the growing research on mathematics in higher education. The implication is an increased understanding of how existing technology, implemented in new ways, can potentially benefit both mathematics students and teaching academics.

scholarly journals Priming Numbas for formative assessment in a first-year mathematics unit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Challis ◽  
Roger Cook ◽  
Pranit Anand
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Rigorous Evaluation ◽  
Assessment Design ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
Automated Feedback ◽  
Computer Aided Learning

This paper outlines an initiative that involved implementing ‘Numbas’ as a computer-based tool to support mathematics learning. ‘Numbas’ was implemented within the existing learning management system at Queensland University of Technology, where students engaged in formative assessment activities independently and were provided with automated feedback along the way. An initial evaluation was undertaken by learning designers using the ‘Assessment Design Decisions Framework’, and although more rigorous evaluation is underway, results indicate positive outcomes, and appropriate adjustment is likely to be made before rolling it out to other units within the School of Mathematical Sciences. This paper will be of interest to other educators looking for ways to embed independent computer-aided learning of mathematics.

Technology-Based Activities as Formative Assessments in the Higher Education Classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-253
Author(s):  
Diana Tang-En Chang ◽  
Jennie L. Jones ◽  
Danielle E. Hartsfield
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Elementary Education ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Assessment In Higher Education

Instructors across a variety of contexts and levels utilize formative assessments to measure students' progress toward meeting learning outcomes. Formative assessments are how instructors gauge whether their students have mastered content or skills or if they require additional practice and support. The purpose of this chapter is to explain how three elementary education professors utilize technology-based activities as formative assessments within their classrooms. In this chapter, the authors address the importance of using formative assessment in higher education classrooms and provide illustrative examples of how various technologies can be used as assessment tools. These examples will include game-based activities (e.g., Kahoot), presentation platforms (e.g., Nearpod), and organizational tools (e.g., Padlet). The goal of this chapter is to help support instructors in higher education who wish to incorporate technological activities while using them as formative assessments when teaching students.

scholarly journals Methods of Teaching Centered on Learning and Formative Assessment in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Vaz Oliveira ◽  
Maria Alves ◽  
António Costa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Effective Feedback ◽  
Assessment Strategy ◽  
Teaching Learning

We analyse the importance of meaningful learning and the use of a formative assessment strategy, promoted by peer learning methods centred on the students, in a curricular unit (CU) pertaining to a degree in Exact Sciences, in a Higher Education Institution. Five students from the CU were questioned, through a focus group; the teacher was interviewed. Data of 12 hours of lessons was analysed and categorised using webQDA. We conclude that emphasising the students’ engagement in teaching, learning, and evaluation, has the power to drive the methodological teaching options to incline towards active methods that involve students in activities that foster meaningful learning. And the use of systematic formative assessments, integrated in the teaching-learning process, by using effective feedback, is most likely to make students and teachers responsible for an overall improvement in learning.

scholarly journals Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Formative Assessment Tools for Mandarin as a Foreign Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 97-123
Author(s):  
Dorothy DeWitt ◽  
Suet Fong Chan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communication Competence ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

Purpose - Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is important in intercultural exchange, to address problems and conflicts which may arise due to miscommunication that results from interlocutors’ diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Interlocutors may have different perceptions and interpretations of communicative behaviour. However, cultural and intercultural aspects seem to be ignored in teaching Mandarin as a foreign language (MFL) in Malaysian higher education institutions. Hence, the ICC level among local MFL learners is unknown. In this study, formative assessments were designed in a culturally integrated MFL module to investigate learners’ level of ICC in a selected Malaysian polytechnic. Methodology - The polytechnic was selected as cultural competency was incorporated in the MFL course. A design and developmental research was carried out to design formative assessment for ICC based on experts’ feedback. The assessment comprised Intercultural Discussion and Reflections, Cultural Discovery, Cultural Quizzes and an Intercultural Communicative Task. They were implemented to assess learners’ ICC. Findings - The results indicate that different forms of assessment were suitable for assessing the respective competences, and that multiple forms of formative assessment should be employed to assess and improve MFL learners’ ICC. Significance - Instructors in higher education could apply these forms of formative assessment to develop ICC among their MFL learners. The assessments could also be extended to intercultural communication competence development in other languages, which is important in a multicultural and globalized society.

Using the World Wide Web for Formative Assessment

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Based

It is widely acknowledged that formative assessments and feedback on performance can play an important role in supporting learning. In traditional teaching and learning paradigms, students are constrained by time, place, and resources in the extent to which they may access such support. These problems can be addressed using computer based systems, and the World Wide Web has great potential as a platform for these. This article describes the implementation and use of such a system, which proved popular with students. Patterns of usage are discussed, as is the role of such systems in current and future models of higher education.

scholarly journals Assistive Technologies: Saviour of Mathematics in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pritika Reddy ◽  
Emmenual Reddy ◽  
Vishal Chand ◽  
Sione Paea ◽  
Avinesh Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Learning Mathematics

The pervasion and inclusion of new technologies into teaching and learning processes are continuously changing the higher education landscape. Selected and specific technologies termed as “assistive technologies” are being used as key tools for enabling students to access education and actively and independently participate in the education process, improving learning and supporting inclusive education. This paper presents students’ perception of the use of various assistive technologies such as mobile learning, tablet learning, lecture capture, gamification, and online intelligent systems that have been developed for learning and student support at a higher education institute. There is also a broad discussion on how these can be adopted and adapted in mathematics learning in higher education. It is well documented that students have low-esteem toward or while doing the subject and have math phobia, particularly in higher education. An online questionnaire on the students’ perception of using assistive technologies was deployed to the mathematics students. The results show that assistive technologies are indeed a saviour of mathematics with a significantly positive attitude garnered toward using them for learning mathematics.

Pengaruh Penggunaan Media Belajar dan Minat Belajar terhadap Hasil Belajar Matematika (Eksperimen pada Siswa Kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 8 Kota Tangerang Selatan Tahun Pelajaran 2010 / 2011)

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatan Zenal Mutakin ◽  
Teti Sumiati
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Experimental Method ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Learning Mathematics

<p>The research is an experiment conducted in SMA Negeri 8 Tangerang City, Banten, on the influence of learning and use of media interest in learning of mathematics learning outcomes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the <br />influence of media use to learn and interest in learning mathematics learning <br />outcomes. (Experiment In Student Class XI IPA SMAN 8 Tangerang City Year <br />Lesson 2010/2011). The research method used is an experimental method using <br />the technique "factor analysis" with "Two Way Anova", aided by SPSS version <br />15.0. The results of the analysis studies suggest that: 1) There is the media's <br />influence on the learning outcomes of mathematics learning, 2) There is interest <br />in studying the influence on the results of studying mathematics, and 3) There is no interaction between the learning outcomes of students with interest in learning mathematics students. </p>

COMPARISON OF LEARNING MATH LEARNING RESULT STUDENTS WITH SAVI MODEL AND NHT MODEL ON STUDENT SMKN 1 KOLAKA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
S. Supratman ◽  
Sri Wulandari Muhlis
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
T Test ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Maximum Value ◽  
Learning Mathematics

The formulation of the problem in this research are: (1) How the result of learning mathematics of students after taught by SAVI learning model?, (2) How the result of learning mathematics of students after taught by NHT learning model?, (3) Is the result of learning mathematics of students who taught with SAVI learning model is higher than students taught by NHT learning model. The purpose of this study are: (1) To know how the results of learning mathematics students after teaching with SAVI learning model, (2) To find out how the results of learning mathematics students after being taught with NHT learning model, (3) To determine whether the results of learning mathematics students taught by SAVI learning models higher than students taught by NHT learning models. Type of research using experimental method. The population in this study is all students of class X spread in 11 parallel classes with the number of 310 people. Sampling was done by using cluster random sampling technique. In this research as a sample taken 2 classes from the entire population that is class X A3 as experiment class 1 using SAVI learning model and class X A1 as experiment class 2 using NHT learning model. From result of data analysis obtained that: (1) result of student learning taught by using SAVI learning model which consist of 25 students show minimum value 62, maximum value 96, mean (mean) 80,36, with standard deviation 9,10; (2) student learning outcomes taught using NHT learning model consisting of 25 students showing minimum score 62, maximum value 96, mean (mean) 79,62, with standard deviation 10,512; (3) result of t-test analysis using independent sample t-test obtained tcount = 0,302 at = 0,05 with degrees of freedom (dk) = 48 obtained t table = 2,011. Because t <t table then Ha is rejected and H0 is accepted. So it can be concluded that the mathematics learning outcomes of students who were taught with the SAVI model was not higher than the students taught by the NHT model.

Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)-based Formative Assessment: A Proposed Model for Language Learning Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Wiyaka Wiyaka ◽  
Entika Fani Prastikawati ◽  
AB Prabowo Kusumo Adi
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Formative Assessments ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Assessments ◽  
Proposed Model

<div><p class="StyleABSTRAKenCambria">The integration of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) in language learning assessments has become a crucial issue in 21st-century learning. However, not many teachers are aware of the need to incorporate HOTS in assessments due to their insufficient knowledge and the absence of good examples. Further, there is not much research and literature on HOTS-based formative assessment that can be used as references. This research aims to fill the existing gap by providing a model of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS)-based formative assessments for English learning, especially in junior high schools. By employing research and development design, this research describes the validation of the assessment model. The proposed model of assessment may be used as a prototype for assessing language learning.</p></div><p> </p>

Contextual Learning Approach and Performance Assessment in Mathematics Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Wayan Eka Mahendra
Keyword(s):  
Formative Assessment ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Contextual Learning ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Better Than ◽  
A Performance

This study aims to determine the effect of formative assessment and learning approach to the mathematics learning outcome after controlling the numerical aptitude. It was a quasi-experiment with a sample of 186 students obtained by using multistage random sampling technique with 2x2 factorial designs. The data were analyzed by ANCOVA. After controlling the numerical aptitude, the results are: the mathematics learning outcome of the students who followed a contextual approach was better than the ones who followed a conventional learning approach, the mathematics learning outcome of the students who were given a performance assessment was better than the ones who were given a conventional assessment, the interaction between the learning approach and formative assessment affected the students learning outcome for mathematics, the students who followed a contextual learning approach were more suitable to be given a performance assessment, whereas the ones who followed a conventional learning approach were more appropriate to be given a conventional assessment. Based on the research findings, junior high school teachers are suggested to improve their students learning outcome for mathematics. Then, teachers need to use a learning approach and formative assessment accurately and correctly. 

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