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Category Archives: e-assessment
Seven Swans a-Swimming
Day 7. Other question types. OK, so you’ve decided to limit your use of multiple choice questions to situations in which you have no option or where MCQs have something specific to offer. What options do you have for other … Continue reading
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Six Geese a-Laying
Day 6. Making multiple-choice better. Although I don’t, in general, much like multiple-choice questions, I have to admit that they can sometimes work very well. In conventional face-to-face settings, the use of electronic voting systems (‘clickers’) can bring lectures alive … Continue reading
Five Gold Rings
Day 5. Go beyond multiple choice. I’ve been reading a lot recently about the pros and cons of multiple choice (selected response) and constructed response questions. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll realise that I am not … Continue reading
Four Colly Birds
Day 4. What gift was delivered on 28th December? Thinking about possible answers to this question should help you to identify the theme’s of today’s post, so perhaps I’ll stop writing now! Some people say that the first day of Christmas is … Continue reading
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Three French Hens
Day 3. eAssessment design. I’ll start thinking about question type soon enough; in the meantime, this post is about how you run the questions. In OpenMark, usual practice is to give students multiple (usually three) attempts at each question, with increasingly … Continue reading
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Two Turtle Doves
Day 2. Integrate your eAssessment. The desirability of integrating your eAssessment is true at various levels. The sorts of things I’m thinking about include: 1. Don’t just think about eAssessment as an add on. We talk about alignment of teaching … Continue reading
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A partridge in a pear tree
Day 1. Before you start….Think! What is the purpose of this assessment? What are you trying to achieve? Is it assessment of learning (summative) or assessment for learning (formative)? Or perhaps it is diagnostic – providing information for your students … Continue reading
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Top tips
I’ve recently been asked for my ‘top tips’ for writing interactive computer-marking assignment (iCMA) questions. I thought I might as well nail my colours to the mast and post them here too: • Before you start writing iCMA questions, think … Continue reading
iCMA statistics
This work was originally reported on the website of COLMSCT (the Centre for the Open Learning of Mathematics, Science, Computing and Mathematics) – and other work was reported on the piCETL (the Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching and … Continue reading
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Feedback after a correct answer
OpenMark is set up to give students increasing feedback after each incorrect attempt at a question. After they have had [usually] three attempts they are given a ‘full answer’. The system is set up so that a student who gets … Continue reading
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