INNOVATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE EXAMINATION FORMATS IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

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Abstract

In the Covid era, online and open-book assessments were forced on universities. While this was
intended to be a temporary and undesirable measure, several advantages of online, open-book
examinations became apparent. These include resource savings as examination papers do not
need to be printed, and the ease of sharing the scripts among a team of markers. This research
is on appropriate types of questions to include in such examinations. We first discuss a survey
of students and staff regarding their experience of online examination during the Covid
lockdown. We then consider online, open-book, timed examinations for a first-year mathematics
examination, and take-home, open-book, open-internet, untimed but set submission time
examination for two higher level applied statistics units. Our experience dictates that such
examinations are not only feasible but desirable. In particular, several graduate attributes for the
applied statistics units cannot be tested in a traditional, timed, closed-internet examination.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTable Mountain Delta 2023 Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationThe 14th Southern Hemisphere Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics
EditorsAnita L. Campbell, David Holgate, Batseba Mofolo- Mbokane
Place of PublicationSouth Africa
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town
Pages25-37
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2024
Event14th Delta Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics - University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Duration: 26 Nov 20231 Dec 2023

Conference

Conference14th Delta Conference on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics
Country/TerritorySouth Africa
CityCape Town
Period26/11/231/12/23

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