MATLAB Grader Enhanced Assessent and Feedback

Abstract

To ensure our mathematics graduates are ready to engage in transdisciplinary problem solving, and to enhance their employability, they must see real computational tools and practice using them in authentic modelling contexts. Asking students to consider equations that arise from modelling contexts, and to solve them numerically using well-established mathematical techniques, is a form of authentic learning and assessment that addresses this issue.

We use MATLAB Grader as an online assessment tool in many of the courses taught in the Mathematical Sciences Institute. In this presentation, we concentrate on how it has benefited the first-year teaching programming.