Quiz or Q&A tools:
A context for building question pools. Metadata about topic, SOL correlation, difficulty level, other? can be associated with each question. Questions can conform to a variety of configurable format options for different contexts. SOL are typically 4-multiple choices. MACC are open ended response (no multiple choice), and typical quiz/test questions conform to about 4 or 5 formats: multiple choice, T/F or Y/N, matching, fill in blank, numeric value, etc.
Some design notes
http://java.cs.vt.edu:8888/MOOsburgDesign/95
Mock Up (PowerPoint)
quiztoolmockup.ppt
Some Old Notes on the Quiz Tool
These alternatives suggest at least the following entities that could be manipulated by the user:
- Question objects with a variety of metadata:
- Type:
- True/false
- Multiple choice
- Matching
- Short answer/essay
- Level of difficulty
- Mapping to SOLs (or, more generally, topics) SOLs provide a scheme for categorizing questions accoring to curricula, e.g. Biology, cell structure and function, prokaryotic oraganisms.
- Comments/annotations
- Question pools:
- Sortable/searching by meta-data fields
- Should allow both public and private pools
- Quizzes, defined by
- Question sets:
- Fixed sets of question objects, or
- Algorithms for selecting question objects from one or more pools
- Reporting/feedback configurations
- Real-time assessemt (per question or per quiz)
- Reporting/emailing results (score and quiz) to teacher
- Format for executing, time constraints, delivery (all at once, topic/page at a time) e.g. a competition arrangement, collaborative, tutoring, modelling specific format such as MACC, SOL, SAT.
- Formatting for puzzles, games, etc.
- Results objects, representing student responses. Depending on quiz configuration these could:
- Display results to user, if no questions were open-ended
- Mail results to the teacher
- Leave completed quiz as an object in order to allow annotation, feedback, archiving, correcting, etc.
- Possibly aggregating, e.g. a class, results
Guiding Examples:
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