Tuesday June 10, 2008 Moodle Moot: Developments in the Quiz Module
Developments in the Quiz Module
Tuesday afternoon
Tim Hunt
Open University
New in 1.9
- New Question Types
- Identify part of an image
- Drag and drop matching
- Drag and drop ordering
- File upload
- Question bank
- have students create questions that teachers can then grade or use later in a test
- better sharing of questions between courses (like the Vista repository)
- Email when a quiz is submitted
- confirmation to students and/or teacher when a quiz is submitted
- Better question import and export
- improved error handling
- plug-in question types included in import/export
Current Developments in 2.0+ (none of these features are guaranteed to appear in 2.0)
- Improved Navigation
- Summary of quiz answers before you submit
- Improved quiz reports
- New and improved question types
- calculated
- multi-answer
- regular expression
- JUnit (for doing unit testing for software assignments)
- algebra question type
- others
- More intuitive quiz editing interface
- Improve adaptive mode
- better feedback in adaptive mode
- Certainty based marking
- Students say how certain they are they got a particular answer correct, and there score is modified by their level of confidence.
- For example, a student picks a multiple choice answer, then they say how certain they think they are. If they answer correctly and say they are very certain they got it correct they get 3 points, however, if they get it wrong they loose 6 points. If they answer it correctly but say they are not certain they got it right, they get 1 point, however, if they are wrong, they get 0 points.
- The basic premise is that it's not important how well you can guess an answer but how confident you are that you know the answer. (Just think about your surgeon having to take a test like this - a good guesser is not always desirable)
Posted by gdkraus ( Jun 10 2008, 06:15:32 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
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I don't know that certainty really should be accounted in grading a question. In life it doesn't matter how certain you are about something, all that matters is whether you are right or wrong. That's an over simplified view maybe, but in general your accountable by what you say and do, not how sure you are about something. It is an interesting concept though. Thanks again Greg for spreading info about Moodle Moot.
Posted by Charlie on June 11, 2008 at 02:34 PM EDT #