A COMPOSED MATHEMATICS GRADE OF ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE, PROJECT WORK AND HOMEWORK: A FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH

Daniel Doz, Darjo Felda, Mara Cotič

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FUTLTE220926010D
First page
095
Last page
102

Abstract


Student knowledge assessment is a key element of the pedagogical process, as it provides students, parents, and educators with important feedback information on students’ knowledge and skills. Assessment of students’ mathematical knowledge is complex, as several factors are normally included in students’ final grade, and simply calculating the average of students’ achievements may not provide a complete picture of their knowledge. Therefore, in this paper, we aimed to investigate the possibility of using fuzzy logic to assess students’ knowledge and competencies by considering (1) students’ overall academic performance, (2) the quality of students’ project work on a topic from the history of mathematics and (3) the regularity of handing in homework. The study was conducted considering 22 Italian high school students. The results show that students’ academic performance is similar to student grades obtained with fuzzy logic.


Keywords

mathematics, project work, homework, fuzzy logic

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