Abstract #302006

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JSM 2003 Abstract #302006
Activity Number: 132
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #302006
Title: Dynamic Generation of Self-Grading Statistics Exams
Author(s): Gregory L. Snow*+ and Del T. Scott
Companies: Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University
Address: 538 N 280 W, Orem, UT, 84057-3889,
Keywords: dynamic exams ; self-grading exams ; evaluation
Abstract:

Writing, administering, and grading exams are some of the necessary evils of teaching statistics classes. Often it is desirable to have multiple versions of an exam (sample exam, administered exam, make-up exam, different exams for each student, etc.) but this also multiplies the work of the instructor in creating the multiple exams. We present a system for dynamically creating exams from a question database and an exam template file. This system uses freely available software to automatically generate the exams. The instructor still needs to create a database of test questions and a template including the exam instructions and list of which questions to use. The questions can contain code that will generate random data values when the exam is created (so that several exams can have the same general question with different data values and answers). The resulting exam is a PDF that can be administered over the web and includes javascript functions to grade the exam, give the students immediate feedback, and automatically submit the scores to an online database.

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