Get Your Students Hired
When evaluating students mastery of content, I ask open ended questions to allow students to provide me as much information as possible. This allows me to guide them into the desired information.
Essay questions can be written so as to focus on a specific principle or circumstance. I have to argee with this statement.
In our medical class we take different practice practice exams. The exams are taken through out the course to see if they are able to make good nursing judgement to pass the State exam .
Learned different methods in testing students knowledge . I am a fan of multiple choice and true and false
Measuring students levels of learning, I like multiple choice questions and Fill in the blanks. I learned the importance of the stem and the alternative when formulating good questions for your students.
I include diverse types of questions and organize the quizzes or tests in blocks. It helps the students orient themsleves better thoughout the process. They know that the degree of the sophistication and comprihension increases as they move to the end.
I learned how and when to use specific method in test development to evaluate the mastery level of the students on the chosen topics.
I am not a fan of true and false, beind dyslexic myself. Those questions I would have to read and re-read to make sure I was getting what was being asked, it would eat up my time on a timed exam. Essay is also not as far, some students vocabulary is not as large.
It was interesting having all the different types of questions that can be used to assess student's knowledge. I think it is better to use at least two different types of questions on exams.
This was a good module for review for me, & a fresh look at how to measure the mastery of cotent. All different types of question were always used , & I entend to update them over time based on the following of each type of question.
Use more precise language, to avoid may, might, can, only, never, & the like. Always write in the positive., & be sure true & false questions are about 50% of the test / quiz, worksheet.
Make sure they are sentance based, with the stem & the alternatives. Avoid trick questions. Have 3 to 4 alternatives. State the stem as a complete question, not an incomplete question.
I do not use these that offten, but when I do, I will use them for more difinitive questions / answers, such as cause & affect, Proceedures & opporations, Components & usage, symboles & names.
These can really show the mastery of a subject. They can be perceeved as a subjective measure, instead of an objective measure, so I will need to use rubricks when ever possible.
During the pandemic I gave students a lot of essay based exams, since the others would be easy to find back in their notes. With things returning to some degree of normalcy, I look forward to incorporating more diverse and robust question types, particuarly multiple choice. This is a great reminder of how to structure a variety of question types.
I like reading and learning about the different areas where different styles of questions highlight learning in a different manner. This way, one can assist students to mastery of the content and meet course objectives.
Using these different questioning techniques to assist the students on their mastery of the material. Each questioning type has advantages and disadvantages. The key for the instructor is to use the correct method to reach the goals and objectives for the course.
There are many different types of questions which allow for different skills to be used in answering.
This module provides great information about the pros and cons of each type of assessment question including ease of grading and the level of depth of understanding (according to Bloom's taxonomy) that is really being assessed.
i have learned how to place questions and how to measure student learning and applicaiton of the objective.
Multiple choice and matching are effetive, having the student read and understand the options gets them thinking on what was discussed and learned from the topic