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Review of Maple T.A.
By: David Fisher
"In February 2003 we linked up with Maplesoft’s Canadian headquarters for an online seminar and were impressed by this new product’s ability to accept alternative forms of an answer, using the power of the computer algebra software Maple to compare a student’s response with the correct one."
"Maple T.A. has proved most useful in ‘gateway testing’, ie. initial assessment of new students, but has also been used for part of the assessment in a number of our Level 1 modules and service teaching."
"An important advantage of Maple T.A. over other CAA software is the Maple-graded question. Here, Maple is used to compare a student’s response with the correct answer. If the two are regarded as equivalent by Maple, then the answer is graded as correct unless some form of the answer has been specifically excluded."
"As a means of providing unlimited revision and practice material on basic mathematical topics it is of great value; we have not yet exploited its full potential in this area but have been developing more question banks for the purpose."
Excerpts from "Review of Maple T.A." by David Fisher, in MSOR Connections, November 2004.
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