WeBWorK, a Web-based Interactive Homework System

WeBWorK，一个基于网络的交互式作业系统

• 批准号: 0618081
• 负责人: Arnold Pizer
• 金额: $ 47.5万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WeBWorK; Web; based; Interactive; Homework

Mathematical Sciences (21) This project is expanding the state of development of WeBWorK, a freely distributed web-based interactive homework system. WeBWorK provides students with immediate feedback about the validity of their answers, enabling them to correct mistakes while still thinking about the problem. Students receive individualized versions of problems, so instructors can encourage students to work together, knowing that each student must develop an answer to his or her own version of the problem. WeBWorK supports questions typically found in mathematics and other scientific textbooks as well as more advanced interactive questions, thus surpassing other on-line homework systems whose flexibility in checking answers to questions is more limited. These attributes speak to the project's intellectual merit. In addition, a large user community of over one hundred universities, colleges, and secondary schools, attests to the broader impacts that WeBWorK is exerting on the teaching and learning of mathematics. The primary components of this expansion effort are: i) the provision of detailed, organized documentation accessible at many levels and for faculty with varied backgrounds; ii) the development of simpler and more robust installation procedures for the software; iii) an upgrade of hosting facilities so that more professors can gain experience with WeBWorK without first having to have it installed at their home institutions; iv) the creation of a more intuitive faculty user interface based on feedback from assessment surveys; v) the incorporation of Flash and java applets in WeBWorK problems; and vi) the integration of WeBWorK into course management systems. Finally, extensive assessment surveys of both student and instructor users are being undertaken to ensure that the program interface does not intrude on the learning and teaching processes.

数学科学 (21) 该项目正在扩展 WeBWorK 的开发状态，WeBWorK 是一个免费分发的基于网络的交互式作业系统。 WeBWorK 为学生提供有关其答案有效性的即时反馈，使他们能够在思考问题的同时纠正错误。学生会收到个性化的问题版本，因此教师可以鼓励学生一起工作，因为他们知道每个学生都必须针对自己的问题找到自己的答案。 WeBWorK 支持数学和其他科学教科书中常见的问题以及更高级的交互式问题，从而超越了其他在线作业系统，后者检查问题答案的灵活性更加有限。这些属性说明了该项目的智力价值。此外，由一百多所大学、学院和中学组成的庞大用户社区证明了 WeBWorK 对数学教学和学习产生的更广泛影响。这一扩展工作的主要组成部分是： i) 提供详细、有组织的文档，可供多个级别和不同背景的教师访问； ii) 开发更简单、更强大的软件安装程序； iii) 升级托管设施，以便更多的教授可以获得 WeBWorK 的经验，而无需先在其所在机构安装它； iv) 根据评估调查的反馈创建更直观的教员用户界面； v) 在 WeBWorK 问题中结合 Flash 和 Java 小程序； vi) 将 WeBWorK 集成到课程管理系统中。最后，我们正在对学生和教师用户进行广泛的评估调查，以确保程序界面不会干扰学习和教学过程。