Enhancing and Implementing an Internet-Based System for Mathematics Homework Problems

（21）本项目增强、实现和传播一种技术创新的软件应用程序WeBWorK。WeBWork是一个基于互联网的系统，用于生成和发送数学作业问题给学生，由罗切斯特大学开发，并在其他几所主要大学使用。该项目调整了WeBWork，以满足该机构的数学内容和特定人群。它还增强了该工具，以便其他教师可以轻松使用它，并可以为支持该工具的数据库做出贡献。该项目的目标是提高数学本科学生的数学素养，提高各种低年级班级作业的教育效果，改进国家网络工作数据库计划的内容和能力，并率先将网络工作扩展到整个大学系统和社区高中。该项目通过为教师开发额外的软件工具，使他们能够创建用于WeBWorK的数学问题，而无需编写代码，从而扩大了教师的基础。该项目包括开发WeBWorK讲师指南和基于网络的教学指南，分发给社区的大学和高中教师。最后的改进是开发一种机制，使教师能够对数据库进行关键字搜索，以便在国家数据库中进行搜索。

Mathematical Sciences (21) This project enhances, implements and disseminates a technologically innovative software application, WeBWorK. WeBWork, an Internet-based system for generating and delivering homework math problems to students, was developed at the University of Rochester and is in use at several other major universities. This project adapts WeBWork to meet mathematics content and populations specific to the institution. It also enhances the tool so that other faculty can use it easily and can contribute to the database that supports the tool. The goals of this project are to improve mathematical literacy for undergraduate math students, to enhance the educational effectiveness of homework in a wide variety of lower division classes, to improve the content and capabilities of the national WeBWorK database program, and to pioneer the extension of WeBWorK throughout the university system and to community high schools. The project broadens the base of faculty who can author problems by developing additional software tools for instructors that will enable them to create mathematical problems to be used on WeBWorK without writing code. The project includes development of WeBWorK instructor's guide and web-based teaching guides for distribution to university and high school faculty members from the community. The final enhancement is development of a mechanism to enable faculty to conduct a keyword search of the database for searches on the national database.