STACK Assessment in Mathematics Classroom: Advantages and Disadvantages

摘要

E-Learning is considered a new philosophy of education that is involved in all existing forms of education including full-time education. Presently, there is a variety of software to develop interactive content. This study is aimed to examine the possibility of employing STACK (the System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer algebra Kernel) assignments in the mathematics classroom at a technical university, to compare the use of the STACK questions activity with traditional training, and to evaluate the effectiveness of this method. The experience of using STACK questions has shown that their application helps students of all forms of education in learning mathematics, and considerably facilitates the learning process of teachers, allows you to implement a point-rating (cumulative) system of assessment of knowledge, makes the learning results more visible and convenient for analysis. In addition, we note such advantages of STACK as: the STACK assignments allows you to check analytical solutions to complex types of problems and organize hints that help solve tasks, the STACK assignments saves the teacher time to check solutions and gives students individual options for tasks, tasks prepared in STACK can be used in various modes, such as training mode and monitoring one. In the course of the study, the STACK assignments were analyzed that revealed a greater number of advantages of this assessment compared to its disadvantages and demonstrated the possibility of its application in the educational process.