Personalizing math tests during COVID-19

Friday, August 14, 2020

The start of the Spring Term, at the height of COVID, had instructors moving their courses to a remote format with students spread across time zones. It changed delivery, assignments and testing as in the case of Anton Mosunov, an award-winning lecturer in the Faculty of Mathematics who altered the MATH 135 midterm to an oral exam.

Anton Mosunov
鈥淚n MATH 135, students are learning how to prove things; they鈥檙e learning to think. It鈥檚 a particular thought process that we鈥檙e trying to establish here,鈥 Mosunov notes. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 why I thought the oral exam would actually be a good idea because they would show me how they can think and express their thoughts and show me their argumentation.鈥

Learn more about how Mosunov is adopting new online, face-to-face testing methods to gauge student learning.