Micro-level automatic assessment supported by digital technologies

This paper describes computer aided assessment of mathematics by focusing on the micro-level of automatically assessing students' answers. This is the moment at which a judgment takes place and so it forms the keystone the mathematical assessment process, so fundamental to the learning cycle. We describe the principle of automatic assessment at this micro-level and report some of the significant technical developments of the last two decades through examples of internet based systems.

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