A Mathematical Programming Approach To Aggregating Raw Scores Into A Course Grade

摘要

Teachers use tests, quizzes, assignments, labs, exams… to evaluate the students' learning. This assessment leads to gradeswhich are vital to students, their parents and teachers. The ways the scores are combined are diverse and differ from one course toanother and different ways of combination may result in different grade. What is precarious is to see that a method of aggregation canresult in a failure of a student and another method produces a success for the same student. In this paper and based on the results in asemester course, I try to find the best weights that have to be allocated to the tests, the quizzes, assignments, labs and exams with a amixed linear program that if were used, they would have maximized the number of successes. An immediate benefit is to implementthose weights for the following semester the course is offered.