DeduceIt: A Tool for Representing and Evaluating Student Derivations
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Almost all automated online grading systems today are currently limited to multiple-choice problems or fill-in-the-blank answers. DeduceIt is a system directed at university-level math and engineering education that aims to allow students to enter substantial formal derivations which are then automatically checked. Current theorem-proving technologies are generally intended to support one expert in writing a potentially long and complex derivation; online education, however, requires a system that can be used without expertise in a field, and that can be effectively used by tens of thousands of students attempting to do the same exercise in many different ways. While DeduceIt borrows heavily from existing theorem-providing techniques, the special constraints of online education lead to unique challenges and a substantially different overall design.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Date created | 2012 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Lee, Colleen | |
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Advisor | Stanford University, Program in Engineering Physics, 2012 | |
Advisor | Koller, Daphne | |
Primary advisor | Aiken, Alex |
Subjects
Subject | DeduceIt |
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Subject | theorem-proving technologies |
Genre | Thesis |
Bibliographic information
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bg823wn2892 |
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
- Lee, Colleen (2012). DeduceIt: a tool for representing and evaluating student derivations. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/bg823wn2892.
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Undergraduate Theses, Program in Engineering Physics
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