Monthly Archives: January 2013

Feedforward and dialogue

Until this morning, I thought the term ‘feedforward’ was something that had been invented recently – indeed, I thought it had its origins around the time of the FAST (Formative Assessment in Science Teaching) Project and the now famous Gibbs … Continue reading

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Diagnostic quizzes

Following on from the discussion with Tim on my previous post, it occurs to me that our online quizzes that consistently attract the highest number of users are our diagnostic ‘Are you ready for?’ quizzes. Since it opened in April … Continue reading

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Maths for Science assessment – the first 10 years

Ten years ago, at the end of January 2003, 186 Open University students submitted the second online interactive end-of-module assignment (EMA) for my little 10-credit baby, S151 Maths for Science (57 brave souls had submitted the first EMA, back in … Continue reading

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Twelve Pipers Piping

Day 12. Monitor and improve. One of the advantages of eAssessment (whatever you mean by that term)  is the ability to monitor actual student behaviour. This is not the same as what students say they do, neither is it the same … Continue reading

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Eleven Drummers Drumming

Day 11. A broader definition of eAssessment. I can clearly remember the day, around 5 years ago, when I felt rather small at a conference because I was talking about my work with short-answer free text questions, and realised that … Continue reading

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Ten Lords a-Leaping

Day 10. Check, check and check again. So you’ve chosen your question type, written your question and feedback and constructed your answer-matching. You may even have put your questions together into a quiz or interactive computer-marked assignment (iCMA) of some … Continue reading

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Nine Ladies Dancing

Day 9. Using STACK to write questions to assess maths.  There may or may not be nine ladies dancing, but there is certainly one female blogger who would happily do a little dance around her house this evening. I’ve managed … Continue reading

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Eight maids a-Milking – part 2

Day 8b. Using PMatch for short-answer free-text questions. As promised, what I’d like to do is to give you an example of the answer matching for a real question, based on real student responses.

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Eight Maids a-Milking – part 1

Day 8a. Free text marking of short answer questions.  I’ve already talked about the automatic marking of short answers quite a lot on this blog so today, the first day of 2013, I’d like to do two slightly different things … Continue reading

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