Flagging questions as ‘unsound’
Sunday, March 31st, 2013I was talking at the eSTEeM Conference last week about the fact that, whilst our interactive computer-marked assessment (iCMA) questions are generally well liked by our students, occasional questions can cause problems (usually because we are not giving sufficiently targeted feedback, so students don’t understand why the answer they have given is wrong). Why not, someone said, have an ‘unsound’ button? Well, we used to have such a function for our short-answer free text questions (shown below in use back in 2007) and it wasn’t my choice to stop using it. This post considers the pros and cons. (more…)