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New package: exams - Automatic Generation of Standardized Exams

2 messages · Bettina Gruen, Adrian Dusa

Bettina Gruen
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Dear useRs,

the new R package exams provides Sweave-based automatic generation of
exams with multiple-choice questions and arithmetic problems. The
package is available from CRAN:

http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=exams

It includes a vignette giving an overview of the main design aims and
principles as well as strategies for adaptation and extension.
Hands-on illustrations - based on example exercises and control files
provided in the package - are presented to get new users started easily.

Best,
Bettina

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Adrian Dusa
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Dear Bertina,

This is an interesting solutions to generate unique tests for every student, 
and there are also some more possible approaches.
We also faced this problem and our solution was to adopt the Moodle e-learning 
platform (http://www.moodle.org), create a large pool of exercises and each 
student would then get a unique test, with randomly selected questions.

What I am dreaming of (in the long term), is to link R to Moodle to 
automatically generate questions and answers, in the very same approach 
adopted at TU Wien but not with printed PDF files but directly on the server.

The big advantage is the automatic correction of the tests, with no need of 
OCR reading or manually grading, all in a nice MySQL database. Of course, this 
means that exams are given in the computer lab, but since the tests are unique 
we do that over the course of multiple consecutive days.

Useful package nevertheless, thanks very much!
Adrian
On Monday 23 February 2009, Bettina Gruen wrote: