Questions tagged [exams]
This tag is intended for questions about exams as viewed from the point of view of an instructor.
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Good exercises that force you to apply the definition of the derivative, without explicitly telling you to do so?
I'd like to ask my students whether some real function is differentiable at a certain $x_0$. I prefer not telling them that they have to use the definition of the derivative, but to instead present a ...
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Mental Health in Mathematics
I am not sure if my question is relative to this meta but I still want to put forth my thoughts and concerns and questions because I think its not just me but others too who have similar issues.
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Student asked me if it is necessary to simplify fractions at the end of answering a question. I'm not sure how to respond
I was just tutoring someone and we went through some sort of diagnostic test thing, when the following question came up.
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Here is some information about $50$ people who took the driving test:...
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Where can I find public repositories of past math exams?
I'm looking for public repositories/banks of past undergraduate math exams. No solutions necessary. I just want inspiration for writing my own exams and practice exams. It'd be nice to collect links ...
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Effect of grades versus pass/fail on teacher education students
Context: University studies in Norway, master level, to become a teacher at either primary education (barneskole, classes 1-7) or mostly middle school level (ungdomsskole, classes 8-10 and pupils of ...
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A smart student that struggles in exams
I am tutoring a grade 8 student that failed his math exam, but surprisingly it seems that he is more than smart enough: he understands everything I say really quickly, and he knows most of the ideas ...
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Should we assess ability to use specific problem solving methods, or general ability to solve problems?
This is my first semester being an instructor of record for a college algebra course. One of the sections we cover is "methods of solving quadratic equations", where we discuss factoring and ...
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How to test student's skills in programming or using software?
I am going to teach an undergraduate statistics course next year.
My plan is to spend less time on theory and a more time on teaching students to doing some statistics on computer. However, this ...
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How do you handle the frustration of having to GRADE student exams / homework?
A math student may write very long and detailed answers, just because he or she does not know what to look for, for example in Geometry proofs.
Or - a student may just write an arbitrary step without ...
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Which areas of maths should underperforming western countries focus on?
I am not sure which StackExchange to ask this question but I am interested in the relative underperformance of Western countries such as Australia, US, UK compared to other higher performing countries ...
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Create a math quiz with LaTex by randomly choosing questions from a bank
I am looking for a simple solution to the following problem:
I would like to create a math quiz with n questions via LaTex (printable, in pdf) where question 1 is chosen randomly from question bank #1,...
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How to create an online examination in a small class that ensures certain academic integrity
I am teaching a Calculus class with around 30 students. The classroom is about 100 m^2.
So far I have been using myopenmath.com to assign homework problems to my students. Now I would like to deliver ...
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Do you avoid examples or test questions that showcase an algorithmic plug'n'chug approach?
If we accept that there's not much learning from doing the "same" questions, like find the derivative of $x^2$, and $x^3$, and $x^4$ due to the algorithmic way of how it's done, then what ...
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Question formats for online tests, to deter cheating
I'm teaching calculus 1 online this term and anticipate being plagued by the perennial problem of cheaters. I have seen suggestions for how to arrange the testing time to accommodate for traditional ...
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How should mathematics tests be designed? [closed]
I am speaking about high school mathematics .
Students have attended a mathematics course . By the end thereof , students are supposed to be able to:
find the limit of a real function f as “x” ...
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