I'm not a particular fan of quizzes. I believe they are useful in evaluating how much you know, but I'm not sure of their value in assessing a student formally. Developing a quiz was more difficult then I thought it would be.
Structuring questions so they are understandable to others was tough. since I'm not a teacher, it also felt awkward. I'm not an expert, so I felt my questions and answers were too risky, after all I wouldn't want to give anyone wrong information.
I did attempt to make a quiz through Class Marker, which was easy to use. In the end, I scrapped the quiz, I needed better questions, and more accurate answers.
References
Aldred, S (2009) An introduction to teacher’s delivery technologies, Retrieved December 16, 2009, from Moodle, FAHE11001 Managing Elearning.
ClassMarker (2009) ClassMarker. retrieved December 16, 2009, from
http://www.classmarker.com/
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteFor one of my other subjects we did a few quizes each worth 10% each to assess how well we remembered and understood the theories we had learnt. It was used in conjunction with a couple of written assessments where we put those theories into practice to answer real world questions. In this instance I think it is a good way to assess how well the students have understood (or read) the course material as a first step leading into written assessments, particularly in first year subjects. Its also a good way to split the assessment marks over the semester.
I agree its quite difficult to write questions for a quiz. Seems like an easy task but i ended up spending more time developing the questions than I first thought even though I kept it very basic. I imagine as a teacher once you know your course material 'inside out' so to speak, that it would be quite easy, particularly at a junior high level.
regards
Michele