Automation of Monitoring Students' Knowledge and Independent Work Using Mathcad

Abstract

In the challenging Covid-19, and also online education and web-learning expansion conditions, independent and distance forms of student work become especially relevant. As a consequence, the role played by such important parts of the educational process as control and monitoring the knowledge acquisition by students, and also their skills and abilities is growing. In this connection, the need to provide the educational process with a large number of individual variants of tasks, both training tasks and control tests, has increased. In addition, in this case a teacher faces the problem on performing such timeconsuming work as quick checking and evaluating a large number of tasks completed by students, and also monitoring their knowledge and skills. To solve these problems, the paper offers an automated method for creating and checking tasks and tests using Mathcad software. Implementation of this method is shown by an example of topics studied in the courses "Econometrics" and "Mathematical Statistics". The author has a patent issued by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property of the Russian Federation for the developed algorithm.