Automated Assessment of Problem Difficulty in Mathematical Analysis

It is common between teachers of mathematics to assess the difficulty of the problems they gave to students. The evaluation is mostly based on subjective appreciation with no explicit consideration of difficulty factors. However, in a computerized environment for mathematics instruction it would be highly beneficial to dispose of such explicit factors and automated assessment of problem difficulty. In the present paper a set of factors for sequence problems in analysis are proposed. For the automated detection of these factors a set of rules was defined. Knowledge representation and implementation details are described.