Using New Quizzes for automated formative assessment

[stephen_taylor]

I'm really pleased with the functionality of newquizzes for  automated formative assessments.  Here's how I have done it and how it's making life easier for our tutors.

First of all the sheer number of options that come with New Quizzes is amazing! 

The way I have been building my automated formative assessment with it is:

1. use the stimulus to provide content, usually a video or a link to an external site - occasionally both. 
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2. attach the questions relevant to that content to the side, trying to make use of as many different question types as possible to ensure it retains student's interest.
3. For each question use the student feedback option to provide further information
4. Specifically on the wrong answers you can direct them to further material to aid their understanding or tell them what part of the stimulus to pay further attention to.
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5. Ensure that you have set up the feedback options so they can see the points they have scored, whether their answers are correct or incorrect and that they can see item feedback.

I've found that this approach has led to far more student engagement with their formative assessments, they particularly enjoy the fact they can do the work at their own pace, leaving the quizzes and returning to them at will.

[TonyMcKenna]

Hi Stephen

Have you or anyone else found a way to allow students to re-attempt an assessment but for only their incorrect questions to be presented in the second attempt?

Cheers

Tony

[JayParekh]

That is a great idea. Thank you for sharing @stephen_taylor 

I've got the same question as Tony and would be great to know if you've found some alternative.

I did read in a post somewhere that a workaround for letting students submit the correct answers in the second attempt is to let them see the correct responses after the quiz attempt. This way, they will be able to submit all the questions correctly in the second attempt at least.  Not the best approach if the institute policy does not allow for showing the correct answers but the least it can do is to prevent students to make a 3rd attempt for the whole quiz. Hope this helps @TonyMcKenna 

[stephen_taylor]

Hi @TonyMcKenna and @JayParekh.

Unfortunately there isn't that specific function yet, though I'd love it if there was! It's definitely worth making an Ideas Post about.

As Jay says you can alert them see which they got right or wrong and hope they make a record of the right answers before reattempting. If it's being used formatively I don't see that going against your institutions policies as you want them to learn from their mistakes in those ones.

[JayParekh]

Absolutely @stephen_taylor  There is an idea conversation already since 2016 -  New Quizzes: Carry Forward Correct Answers on Quiz Multiple Attempts. 

Please upvote it 🙂 

[TonyMcKenna]

@stephen_taylor and @JayParekh  thank you both for your comments.  I am definitely going to have a look at the idea conversation and promote this but am also looking for a developer who may be able to programme this functionality into quizzes.  I should add that we actually have this functionality already in our Moodle based LMS and it is widely used for our assessments.  In looking at the idea conversation I realised I should also note that we actually use two or three quizzes as question banks.  A question is drawn from one of the question banks and if the learner gets the answer incorrect then a question of the same type is randomly drawn from the question banks for their second attempt.  Correctly answered questions are 'greyed' out after each attempt.  We allow three attempts but the third attempt can only be made available after some kind of intervention by a learner support person.  Finally, the quizzes we develop are for workplace-based assessment against competency standards so less about formal 'learning' and more about validating learner's skills and knowledge in specialised areas.