How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Quizzes and Exams

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Quizzes
and Exams

• Swasati MukherjeeBen Ward

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Why Use Online Quizzes and Exams

• Anytime, anywhere assessment
• Automatic grading
• Quick and easy release of student scores, answer
  keys and assessment statistics
• Rapid deployment

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Tips

• Considering low risk assessment vs. high risk
  assessment
• Creating opportunities for mastery learning
• Providing prompt feedback
• Using pretests and posttests

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Some Basic Strategies

• Retrieval practice
• Feedback
• Repetition
• Spacing

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Tricks of the Trade

• Building a syllabus quiz
• Implementing informal class evaluation
• Polling your class
• Playing with learning games
• Recreating the real world

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Tools Worth Mentioning

• Importing in questions
• Randomizing questions
• Building a question bank
• Using the proctor password

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Common Pitfalls

• Cheating
• Technology

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Online Quizzes
and Exams

• Swasati MukherjeeBen Ward

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Goals and Objectives

• Goals
• Outcomes-oriented
• Concisely worded
• Reflective

• Objectives
• Explicit terminal behavior
• Conditions of demonstration
• Criteria or standards

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Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluationhttp//www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/
  hndouts/bloom.html

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Deterrence for Cheating

• Implement low risk assessment
• Randomize questions
• Use a large question bank
• Create open-book exams
• Build assignments with staged deliverables
• Institute the use of proctors