Tracking the Student Online Learning through a Tree of Objective Questions

 The tool presented in this work allows the teacher to create objective questions in order to get a formative evaluation having as its main goal to track the development of the student in the learning process. The aim of the tool is to create a dependence among test questions, building a tree of questions where the teacher can verify the “path” followed by the student during the test, getting a detailed tracking of the student test resolution to support the teacher evaluation. The teacher is allowed to construct a tree of questions where he can get concrete data about the student's performance. The learner can be led through different paths in the same question, which are determined by his answer providing the teacher with important information about the student learning. Besides this, the tool permits the teacher to build and to apply multiple-choice type questions to problems that have numerical values and formulas or algorithms related to their resolution, modifying the numerical values in the question description every time it is presented. The question correction is made automatically and both the teacher and the learner can analyze the path followed during the test in the feedback information. Index Terms  formative evaluation, objective questions, parameter values, tracking the student evolution.