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Two good things I can suggest. For a good free resource, try
www.hippocampus.org. The site offers a broad range of topics
including algebra, trig, etc and allows you to align topics with many
popular textbooks.
We have started using ALEKS and it does exactly the "more" you're
asking for below. And it even provide a nice graphical, easy to
understand reporting tool for instructors and students alike allowing
for close monitoring of progress.
Good luck!
Raju
>>> Nic Voge <[log in to unmask]> 6/10/2010 4:58 PM >>>
If I can tag onto Shaunte's comments, I am looking for similar kinds
of resources. But, I want more :)
I am also looking for an assessment instrument which measures
students' competency in algebra, geometry and trig.
Ideally this assessment would be keyed to specific sub-topics in these
domains so that students could be directed to
study specific modules based upon their performance on the assessment
instrument. That is, I want to give to students
a diagnostic test the results of which could be used to indicate
specific subtopics in a domain of math, rather than a more
global assessment that the student is not, for instance, competent in
Trigonometry.
Here's the context of my request. In a program we have on my campus
students take a placement exam for one of several calculus courses.
According to instructors, some students are actually more
knowledgeable/competent in calculus than their scores indicate because
they have gaps in their algebra and trig. Students' subsequent
performance in their classes confirms this; instructors frequently
observe that
students who have a good conceptual understanding of calculus are
hindered by limited algebra, geometry and trig competence. However the
calculus placement test we use does not reveal much systematic
information about students' non-calculus math knowledge. So, we are
thinking about
administering a diagnostic assessment in combination with the calculus
placement test. We'd like to be able to point students to specific
topics to study and materials for doing so, because the compressed
nature of the program will not allow for systematic review of trig,
etc. during class time.
If any of you have any leads on this--especially those with expertise
in self-guided learning--please let me know.
Many thanks,
Nic
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> lower-level Mathematics would be fine, I am mostly interested in
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