Monthly Archives: January 2011

More on length of student answers

So what else affects the length of student responses to short-answer free-text questions?

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How long is short?

I’ve been looking at student responses to our short-answer free-text questions. I’ll start by considering something simple; how long are the responses?

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Summative and formative are not opposites

I promise that this will be my last post about the difference between summative and formative assessment per se.  It seems to be something that bothers people; maybe I’ve caught the bug! I used to imagine a continuum that had … Continue reading

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Pedagogy and patterns

While I’ve been absent from this blog I’ve been doing lots of analysis of student responses to our questions. More on that to follow. I’ve also been reading a variety of stuff, including the report on the  JISC-funded project ‘Scoping a vision … Continue reading

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