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A student is facing a teacher, who is probing her1 knowledge of high school mathematics. The student, a new recruit, is freshly arrived from a foreign country, and important questions must be answered: to which grade should the student be assigned? What are her strengths and weaknesses? Should the student take a remedial course in some subject? Which topics is she ready to learn? The teacher will ask a question and listen to the student’s response. Other questions will then be asked. After a few questions, a picture of the student’s state of knowledge will emerge, which will become increasingly sharper in the course of the examination.
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Doignon, JP., Falmagne, JC. (1999). Overview and Mathematical Glossary. In: Knowledge Spaces. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58625-5_1
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