title: Automated grading of homework assignments and tests in introductory and intermediate statistics courses using active server pages.
abstract: Active server pages permit a software developer to customize the Web experience for users by inserting server-side script and database access into Web pages. This paper describes applications of these techniques and provides a primer on the use of these methods. Applications include a system that generates and grades individualized homework assignments and tests for statistics students. The student accesses the system as a Web page, prints out the assignment, does the assignment, and enters the answers on the Web page. The server, running on NT Server 4.0, grades the assignment, updates the grade book (on a database), and returns the answer key to the student.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield 65804, USA. dws148f@mail.smsu.edu
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Stockburger
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000193:education*