A Framework for Reproducible Practice Problems

Michael Karcher First Author
Muhlenberg College
 
Michael Karcher Presenting Author
Muhlenberg College
 
Thursday, Aug 7: 8:35 AM - 8:50 AM
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Contributed Papers 
Music City Center 
Modern tools for reproducible research can be productively adapted to pedagogical uses. In particular, tools for adaptive documents can produce near-
limitless practice problems, potentially including in-depth solutions. With a good framework in place, even teachers with modest coding skills can build
templates for reproducible problems (and solutions). I present a new templating framework using R, Markdown, and Shiny, with tools for delivering
templates as rapid-fire practice problems or as more traditional exam packets.

Keywords

Teaching tools

Pedagogy

Typesetting software

Reproducible research 

Main Sponsor

Section on Statistics and Data Science Education