Hi everyone,
One of the additional changes I'm looking at doing with the government course I teach is to reformat the quizzes. Currently students are allowed to retake their quizzes as many times as they like before a unit closes. However, the students are getting the same questions each time (in the same order). It hasn't been much of a challenge for them.
A change I am making to my course is to continue using chapter quizzes and allowing students to retake the quizzes as many times as they like prior to a unit ending. The change comes with how the questions are selected. The questions will now be selected from a pool of questions and students are likely to get new questions each time they retake a quiz. This should make the quizzes more challenging for the students, should help reinforce the information they are learning, and will require that they complete their work earlier in a unit instead of waiting until the final few minutes of a unit to do their homework. And, by allowing the retakes, students still have the chance to earn a 100% on every quiz (if they work at it).
What experiences have the rest of you had with using chapter quizzes in your courses? Are they good, bad, ugly (sorry, had to add in a Clint Eastwood pun here).
Thanks,
Holly DB
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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Holly,
ReplyDeleteGreat project! I don't use many quizzes in my courses but I really like the idea of giving the students all the chances to earn the 100% of the grade if they want to take the time of retaking the test.
I use quizzes with questions drawn from a large database of possible questions. The students get a different test every time they take it and no students see the same test. Each student gets three tries and the highest score counts. I think this is the only way to fly in an online class.
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I do not use chapter quizzes in my classes, but like your idea of a bank of questions for them to choose from.
ReplyDeleteHi Carol, Dave, and Mary: Thanks for the reply comments on using quizzes. When I first inherited this course from a previous instructor (several years ago, my how time flies!) he explained that although students can look up the answers, they are still exposed to the concepts in the course. I liked that philosophy!
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