Assessment
This was a difficult task for me. One thing that struck me was the difficulty in including the information into the quiz. Although it initially seemed obvious to me, I found that there are certainly some issues that I would need to address in the future. Although it certainly does make marking easier I have issues with the entire process of the essay questions. I would love to give the students instant feedback, but that really isn’t possible with these sort of questions. It seems to defeat the purpose somewhat of using moodle for instant online assessment.
I used a variety of varied questions in my quiz and found this to be a challenge. A few questions were raised. What questions are ideal? What type of learning does each questions lead to? ” Thus, the challenge for teachers designing and organizing the online learning context is to create a mix of learning activities that are appropriate to student needs, teacher skills and style, learning objectives of the program of study, and institutional technical capacity. (Anderson, p.350).” I agree with this statement. Often the type of questions is just as important as the actual question itself.
After creating my quiz (of course!), one thing that I learned about was how to set the quiz to be worth a certain amount. Instead of taking each question and assigning it a value so it equals a cerain amount, you can set the entire quiz to be worth a certain amount. For example I could simply assign the quiz 15 marks. Then the quiz would be worth 15% of the total mark of the course. Very uesful!
Preview the quiz here.
http://moodle.met.ubc.ca/mod/quiz/view.php?id=4268
Works Cited.
Anderson, T. (2008). Teaching in an Online Learning Context. I In: T. Anderson & F. Elloumi (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Online Learning. Edmonton AB: Athabasca University. Accessed online 3 March 2009 http://www.aupress.ca/books/120146/ebook/14_Anderson_2008_Anderson-DeliveryQualitySupport.pdf