Educational Technology

February 3, 2015

Teaching in the 21st Century – Quizzes Work: True or False?

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by Traci Gardner, Ideas for Teaching Writing

Last month, I considered the strategy of including quizzes in a writing course. Essentially, while I hated pop quizzes as a student, I thought I might be shortchanging students who do well as test takers. I decided to try quizzes in the online technical writing course during Virginia Tech’s Winter Session. Now that the course is over, I have to admit that the quizzes seemed useful and effective. Logistically, the system was simple to set up. The companion website for the textbook included quizzes that were ready to import to Scholar (our campus installation of Sakai). I had to edit the quizzes in order to randomize answers where possible and remove the requirements for written rationales for some questions. Otherwise, they were ready to go. I just used what was available.

http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/assessment/quizzes-work-true-or-false/tgardner/

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