FACTORS INFLUENCING TEACHER'S DESIGN OF ASS ESSMENT MATERIAL AT TERTIARY LEVEL

Numerous research works considered the difficulties met by the universities' firstyear students. These works identify various reasons for those difficulties, offer various interpretations and develop various means of didactic action. The attention of researchers was initially centred on the new knowledge met and was then devoted to the new reference consisting in the practices of the expert mathematicians. It eventually moved upon new institutional expectations (see for a synthesis Gueudet on 2008). It led in particular to observe that students' private work is focused on learning how to mimic techniques, whereas teachers expect that students develop a real mathematical autonomy (Lithner 2003, Castela 2004).