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Reporting

Computer aided assessment of mathematics works in the following phases.

1. Authoring,
2. Testing and
3. Deploying questions.
4. Adding questions to a quiz and use by students.
5. Reporting and statistical analysis.

Reviewing students' answers closes the learning cycle for teachers by allowing them to understand what students are doing. Basic reporting is undertaken through the Moodle quiz. For example, lists of scores etc. are available there. The Moodle quiz also calculates basic statistics based on the numerical information.

To review work in more detail we need to use two important parts of the question. Please read the following two entries before continuing with this article.

Moodle quiz features

Most of the day to day reporting is done through the Moodle quiz features. Details of the statistics available are online at http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=470306&direct=1.

Individual STACK item analysis

STACK has a bespoke reporting mechanism for analysing responses to questions, grouped by the answer note. To make us of this you need to install the STACK quiz report module.

To access the quiz reports you need to navigate to the quiz. Then follow the chain

Administration -> Quiz administration -> Results -> STACK response analysis.


This page lists all the STACK questions in a particular quiz. Click on a link to perform an analysis of attempts at an individual question.

The page contains a number of parts.

• A summary of the question. This includes the question variables, uninstantiated (i.e. raw) question text, general feedback, uninstantiated question note as a reminder to the teacher what the question is about.
• Summary tables of the frequencies of answer notes for each potential response tree, and each variant.
• A detailed summary of all attempts at a particular variant.
• Maxima code to facilitate off-line analysis.

Summary tables

The first table provides a summary of the frequency of each answer note for each question note, both as a numerical frequency and as a percentage. Each potential response tree is listed separately. A second table shows similar data for splits answer notes, to show the frequency each branch of the tree is traversed. Depending on the form of the trees in the question, each table provides potentially useful comparisons of the frequencies of outcomes of different variants.

Variants

For each question variant we provide a number of tables of data.

• The first table lists all inputs at one question, their frequency, the score generated and each outcome from the potential response trees.
• Next we produce tables for each input, and count the number of times each expression is entered and its validity. Where an input is invalid a note records the reason. Remember, validity is more than syntactic soundness so a syntactically valid expression might be "invalid" for this input. For example, we might forbid floating point numbers.

Maxima code

We create a number of lists in Maxima code which record all the valid inputs. These can be copied into a desktop version of Maxima for off-line analysis. This reduces server load, but is also more flexible enabling teachers to manipulate answers without having to update the server. In order to use the analysis you will need to set up the STACK - Maxima sandbox.

The code generates three maxima lists

• the list inputs creates the names of the inputs to the question. These are assumed to be valid maxima variable names, so are maxima objects. E.g. inputs:[ans1,ans2,ans3]\$.
• the list variants which is a list of strings which are the question notes used.
• the list of lists called stackdata. This holds all the input data. The elements of the list show the input data for each variant. E.g. stackdata[1] is the input data for variant[1]. For each variant, the elements are a list of all data for each corresponding input. E.g. stackdata[1][2] is the input data for variant[1] and input[2].

This data is available for off line analysis using functions in the file stack\stack\maxima\stackreporting.mac

More work on this functionality is needed.

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