Quizzes
Hello!
I'm feeling a little frustrated with the quizzes, as sometimes the questions are a little ambiguous or binary in their answer required. For example - Quiz 4 Question 2 at the start states that you are to select the two most appropriate indicators for each scenario. Then after each scenario, it says to select one or more, suggesting more than two is possible. All answers are relevant in one way or another and it is difficult to necessarily determine what is deemed 'most' relevant. When I selected 3 boxes, and if one happened to be incorrect, it stated I was partially correct, allowing for another try. On the second try, I made a correction only to be then told I was partially correct and provided too many responses. If only two were answers were allowed, it should have prevented you from marking 3 boxes.
In Quiz 5 Question 3 - Statement 1 - 'Everyone involved in caring for the child must be at the meeting' - the answer revealed was True. With this one, when listing to the Child Planning Audio of Pam and Liz - it was suggested that having all professionals associated with the child (which can be large in number) can be overwhelming and that the meetings could be more comfortable for the parent and child, with fewer (but relevant) people being in attendance. This was supported by the revealed explanation which stated "you can decide with the family and other professionals who are most useful to be at the meeting'. This is contradictory. I selected FALSE in light of the statement using the word 'must', as I felt that it was the type of scenario where not all professionals attached to a child's case are always needed in every child planning meeting.
The quizzes are useful to summarise the learning and to provide an explanation if you do not quite understand, however, I seem to be looking at the content of the course in a nuanced manner but the quizzes are in fact quite rigid.
On reflection, I have learned and understand the content but my confidence for passing Quiz 6 in one attempt has been eroded purely by my experience of consistently misinterpreting the actual quiz questions along the way. I don't mind being wrong but I am a little concerned about actually passing Quiz 6 and would be disappointed if I failed on technicalities rather than my learning being accurately reflected.
My reason for mentioning this is just as constructive criticism in regard to how the course could be improved.
Has anyone else experienced issues with the Quizzes or is it just me and my style of learning?
Thanks.
This matches my experience and you have identified the same issues. I also reflected broadly and found the quizzes were more rigid in that sense. In conversation or essay I could easily have explained my answers and yet not recognised in the way the quiz works.
I've just accepted that, but it was an odd experience, a bit jarring.
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Glad to hear Loreen that I was not the only one. The content was broad and encouraged the reader to expand on thinking with the concept that 'no one size fits all' and that all children are individual and should have their individual needs met but then the quizzes tried to lock you in to a very narrow response. For a short course to support learning, I thought for those less experienced in the OU online learning style, this could be off putting for some students. Most quizzes I have come accross in the past, reflect the content generally and allow for a broader response, unless it is a yes/no right/wrong answer that is required.
Again... just thought it might be helpful to open up the discussion for the course adminstrators to consider.
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Dear Loreen
as I have said to Jane above, I am really sorry that you have had this experience and I really take on board your point about the quizzes being odd and jarring.
I hope you are ok, thank you for the feedback.
very best wishes
Jackie
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Dear Jane
thank you so much for taking the time to outline the problems you are experiencing with the quizzes, this is very helpful to us because we can attend to this for future learners, although I know it isn't helpful to you. As this is only the second presentation of the course, we are still ironing out a few hiccups.
Would you let me know how you get on please?
and again, I am really grateful to you and apologise for the frustration this will have caused you.
best wishes
Jackie
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