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Maplesoft™ (Waterloo, Canada), a leader in software products for technical education and research, has released the newest version of its popular testing and assessment tool.  Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts) version 7 of Maple T.A.™ provides new options for analysing grades and gaining a deep understanding of how students are performing.

The new analysis capabilities in Maple T.A. 7 include tools that let instructors view all responses to a single question at once to look for patterns, track progress towards the final grade based on an instructor-defined grading scheme, and incorporate and analyse results from external assignments.  Maple T.A. 7 also introduces new palettes that make it easy for students to enter integrals, derivatives and matrices in natural mathematical notation, which allows instructors to offer a wide variety of questions even to students who are not comfortable with commands and syntax.

“Assessment tools for courses involving mathematics face unique challenges.  Our testing and assessment product takes advantage of our years of experience developing mathematical software for education and academic research,” says Paul DeMarco, Director of Development for Maple™ and Maple T.A.  “With the new releases of Maple T.A., instructors and students have even more tools available to them to support the assessment process.”

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft has over 20 years of experience developing products for technical education and research, offering a solution that applies to every aspect of academic life.  Its product suite reflects the philosophy that given great tools, people can do great things.

Maplesoft’s core technology is the World’s most advanced symbolic computation engine which is the foundation for all of its products, including Maple™, the technical computing and documentation environment; MapleSim™, the high-performance, multi-domain modelling and simulation tool for physical systems; and Maple T.A., a web-based system for creating and assessing online tests and assignments.

The Maplesoft product range is supplied and supported by Adept Scientific in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Nordic countries.

With offices in the UK, Germany and throughout the Nordic region, Adept Scientific is one of the World’s leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications on desktop computers.  Full details and contact information for all Adept Scientific international offices are available at www.adeptscience.com; or telephone +44 (0)1462 480055.