Dear Grant,

Re: Invitation to present oral paper

Computer Aided Assessment in Mathematical Sciences

Thank you for submitting an abstract for the annual UniServe Science
Symposium.

You are being invited to prepare a paper and to present it orally at the
symposium on Thursday September 28, 2006.

The paper must be received by Monday June 26, 2006. A paper accompanying an
oral presentation may be up to six A4 pages in length. Further guidelines
for submission of the paper are available on the UniServe Science web site
at http://science.uniserve.edu.au/workshop/conference.html

According to the DEST guidelines, each paper must be reviewed by two
independent referees. Therefore, in order to get the required number of
reviewers, we will ask you to act as a referee for two other papers for
the Symposium. The refereeing process will take place between 26 June and
28 July. If you are unable to help at this time, please let us know. If we
do not hear from you, we will assume that you are available. Guidelines for
refereeing will be supplied.

You will be contacted closer to the date of the symposium regarding you
needs for the actual presentation.
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Quoting keady@maths.uwa.edu.au:

> to uniserveedit06@usyd.edu.au I think that I would prefer a paper to a
> poster, but any method whereby I can demo at least some of the systems
> is
> OK. If I give a paper, I would need internet access
> for a laptop with display through the overhead projection
> system. With a poster, just internet access would be OK.
> The title and abstract follow.
> Grant Keady (keady@maths.uwa.edu.au)
>
>
> Computer Aided Assessment in Mathematical Sciences
>
> Grant Keady, University of Western Australia
> keady@maths.uwa.edu.au
>
> Gary Fitz-Gerald, RMIT
> garyfitz@rmit.edu.au
>
> Greg Gamble, Curtin University
> gregg@maths.curtin.edu.au
>
> Chris Sangwin, University of Birmingham
> C.J.Sangwin@bham.ac.uk
>
>
> ABSTRACT.
> The Computer Aided Assessment (CAA) systems treated in this
> paper
> * involve the delivery of questions across the web;
> * are underpinned by Computer Algebra (CA) packages.
> The CA underpinnings allow the students to to enter answers,
> have them
>  parsed by the CA system,
>  type-checked by the CA system, and
>  then passed through a marking procedure which can
> recognize any correct form of the answer.
> The CA underpinning also allows one to generate model solutions
> (after due-dates) and to provide many forms of feedback.
> In this way, the systems are more for "Computer Aided Learning"
> than for "Assessment".
>
> These CAA systems have been successfully used in a
> moderate number of Mathematics Departments,
> but few Physics Departments.
> One function of the paper is to publicise them to a
> wider community. In particular, the underlying CA packages
> are widely used by physicists (and, in some cases,
> were written by physicists). As authoring for any of
> these CAA involves coding in the CA package underpinning it,
> physicist users of the same CA are well-placed to use
> the CAA systems.
>
> Information, and often guest logins, to some of the systems
> are available at
> http://aim.maths.uwa.edu.au
> https://calmaeth.maths.uwa.edu.au
> http://stack.bham.ac.uk
> http://weblearn.rmit.edu.au
>
> The CAA systems range from
> * totally free and open-source
> (e.g. stack, underpinned by maxima), through
> * free and open-source except for the CA
> (e.g. AiM, underpinned by maple), to
> * commercial (e.g. mapleTA and webLearn- both underpinned by maple- and
> calmaeth and MyMathLab/mathxl -both underpinned by mathematica).
>
> The integration of this sort of CAA with
> widely used Managed Learning Environments
> (WebCT, moodle, etc.) is developing.
> This would harmonize the students' learning experience
> across different subjects (at the very least avoiding
> a separate login for the mathematics CAA).
> We will speculate on how the genre may develop.
>
> **************END_OF_ABSTRACT******************************************
>
>
>


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