Innovative evaluation technique: personalized mathematical tests at engineering degrees

Abstract

Personalizing the evaluation process to the student characteristics and skills, is one of the indicators for evaluating the University Quality within the framework offered by the European Space for Higher Education. This paper describes an innovative technique by which we are able to create as many different mathematical tests as students we have in class. This procedure allows us to prepare an exam of mathematics completely adapted to every student. In this way, each of them will have their own exam, which is different from each other.Using at the same time three software (R, Asymptote and Maxima in a Latex environment), it is possible to elaborate questions with graphics and mathematical calculations. Every time a test is generated, graphs and data are completely different from the rest of the tests.Carrying out this evaluation methodology without using a computer and a suitable program would be almost an impossible task. It would take us a long time, taking into account that we have nearly one hundred students in the classroom.