Quest Learning and Assessment
Encyclopedia
Quest Learning and Assessment is a web-based tool for instructors and students of mathematics
and science
created at the University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences
and has been adopted at over 1,000 U.S. institutions. Instructors can create homework, quizzes and exams from a large pool (60,000) of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Computer Science questions, and assign to their students. Most questions have built-in variations, so Quest can create custom assignments for each student. Students get immediate feedback when answering questions and can view step-by-step solutions after the assignment due date has passed.
grading scheme. If a student gets an answer correct they are awarded points, however points are subtracted for incorrect answers to discourage guessing.
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
created at the University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences
The College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin offers 10 Bachelor of Arts majors, 42 Bachelor of Science majors, and 20 graduate programs to more than 8,000 undergraduates and 1,600 graduate students. The college employs over 452 faculty . Many of the programs are consistently...
and has been adopted at over 1,000 U.S. institutions. Instructors can create homework, quizzes and exams from a large pool (60,000) of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Physical Sciences and Computer Science questions, and assign to their students. Most questions have built-in variations, so Quest can create custom assignments for each student. Students get immediate feedback when answering questions and can view step-by-step solutions after the assignment due date has passed.
Grading system
Questions are graded using a "guessing neutral" system similar to the SATSAT
The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still...
grading scheme. If a student gets an answer correct they are awarded points, however points are subtracted for incorrect answers to discourage guessing.