A case study of a probability and statistics course: Improving students' performance with formative assessment

Anna Carolina Finamore, Ana Moura Santos, Bernardo Pereira Nunes, António Pacheco

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Abstract

This paper presents a case study of a regular course in Mathematics, offered every academic term to about 1,500 STEM students of the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon. The main concerns for this course are the low approval and high dropout rates. A new approach, called Online Electronic Quizzes with Random Parameters, based on formative assessment was introduced to run alongside the already adopted summative assessment. The ultimate goal of our work was to map and understand students' weaknesses and then invite professors and staff to discuss and suggest solutions to support students' learning. Preliminary results show that the proposed approach contributed to increase students' performance and approval rates in approximately 11% of the cases.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6-15
Number of pages10
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume1850
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment, TEFA 2016 - Lyon, France
Duration: 16 Sept 2016 → …

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