An innovative model for integrating electronic assessment into differential equations education
Tsvetan Hristov · AIP conference proceedings · 2018
Electronic assessment is a modern form of assessment of students’ knowledge and skills that can be integrated into traditional mathematics education when some of the assessment activities are done online. However, this requires the use of adequate security and protection measures such as various forms for student identification and authorship verification. This article discusses the possibilities and limitations of using a web-based student identification system in mathematics education. We report on the experiment that was conducted in the frame of TeSLA (An Adaptive Trust-based e-assessment System for Learning) project to explore existing problems and to offer new solutions in continuous e-assessment especially in differential equation education. We present an innovative model for e-assessment in the course "Differential equations and applications" in the bachelor program "Software engineering" at Sofia University, based on the long experience we have in the education in this discipline. Some results of a survey of the students opinion in relation to the TeSLA identification software used are presented and analyzed.