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Edmund Bremner Post 1

• 20 February 2015, 11:37 AM

What do we call the 'multiple try with instant feedback' behaviour

Hi guys,

I am just putting together some notes for a training session on Moodle quizzes and finding this material very useful and inspiring.

However, I have a quick question that you might be able to help me with.

I am considering the different 'types' of eAssessment available:   'Diagnostic', 'Formative' and 'Summative' all make total sense to me.  Ipsative, Dynamic and Synoptic are all a little denser, but I see what they are about.  

But none of these terms seems to cover the way we can use Quizzes in Moodle using the 'multiple try with instant feedback' behaviour, which is much less a form of eAssessment and more as an interactive learning tool.

What term can (or do) we use to describe this method of using quizzes within eAssessment.

Thanks


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LT - Plymouth University

Philip Butcher Post 2 in reply to 1

• 20 February 2015, 1:00 PM

If we've ever given it a name then it's eAssessment for learning. You can find out more here http://www.open.ac.uk/opencetl/resources/colmsct-resources/butcher-p-2009-overview-and-review-the-icma-initiative-april-2009

At the OU we use the terms diagnostic, formative and summative and we use this behaviour in all three modes.

It started out when we wanted to give instant feedback to answers to maths questions. So while the problem is in your head you get told whether you are right or not. Typically the first wrong answer is met with just 'Incorrect.' but a second wrong answer will often have 'incorrect' followed by a reference to the course materials. So all of this is formative.

But in the background there are marks and the available marks decreases for each wrong try. If these marks are being counted towards the students continuous assessment score then these marks become a major driver to read the course materials and strive to get it right. So this is summative.

And some of our courses run these are diagnostics, some as formative where the marks are purely for the students and some add the marks to the students record and these are summative.

Phil

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Edmund Bremner Post 3 in reply to 2

• 24 February 2015, 9:36 AM

Thanks Phil


that makes a lot of sense!