{"id":1450,"date":"2013-06-06T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2013-06-06T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:50:23","slug":"transforming-assessment-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Assessment webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a webinar yesterday in the &#8216;Transforming Assessment&#8217; series, on &#8220;Short-answer e-assessment questions: six years on&#8221;. The participants were lovely and I was especially pleased that there were lots of people I didn&#8217;t know. There\u00a0is a\u00a0recording at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/TA5J2013\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/TA5J2013<\/a>\u00a0if you&#8217;ve interested.<\/p>\n<p>The response yesterday was very encouraging, but I remain concerned that more people are not using question types like this. However I rest my case that you need to use real student responses in developing answer matching for questions of the type we have written. That&#8217;s fine for us at the OU, with large student numbers, but not necessarily for others.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the feedback from participants, someone suggested that they would value training in writing questions and developing answer matching. I would so much like to run training like this, but simply don&#8217;t have the time.<\/p>\n<p>But, thanks to Tim Hunt, we have another suggestion. I have recently used the Moodle Pattern Match question type to write very much simpler questions, which require a tightly constrained single word answer &#8211; like the one shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1453\" title=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture.png 752w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Capture-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in using Pattern Match, writing questions like this\u00a0would give a simple way in\u00a0&#8211; and you&#8217;d probably get away with developing the questions without the need for\u00a0student responses beforehand (though I would still monitor the responses you do get).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a webinar yesterday in the &#8216;Transforming Assessment&#8217; series, on &#8220;Short-answer e-assessment questions: six years on&#8221;. The participants were lovely and I was especially pleased that there were lots of people I didn&#8217;t know. There\u00a0is a\u00a0recording at http:\/\/bit.ly\/TA5J2013\u00a0if you&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-answer-free-text-questions","tag-short-answer-free-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}