{"id":215,"date":"2010-11-02T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=215"},"modified":"2010-11-02T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T17:47:59","slug":"what-sorts-of-e-assessment-questions-do-students-do-best-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"What sorts of e-assessment questions do students do best at?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Multiple choice? Short-answer free text?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The table below shows the average score per question (out of 3), for all students and\u00a0all\u00a0questions of each type, used in\u00a0S104 over a whole presentation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Figure-51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218\" title=\"Figure 5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Figure-51.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Figure-51.png 450w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Figure-51-191x300.png 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see that, amazingly, the scores are highest for short-answer free-text questions (the ones where we ask students to give their answer as a phrase or sentence). Perhaps the questions of this type that we are asking are just too easy. Whatever, it&#8217;s a surprising result. Mutliple choice questions are not necessarily the easiest; indeed for this presentation of S104 they were definitely not the easiest. It just goes to show that outcomes aren&#8217;t always what we expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think? Multiple choice? Short-answer free text?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[344,76,360,87,57],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-difficulty","tag-e-assessment","tag-multiple-choice","tag-question-difficulty","tag-question-types","tag-short-answer-free-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}