Assessment for learning: why we're altering the quiz

Phil ButcherOU E-assessment adviser & Fellow in the Centre for Open Learning of Mathematics, Science, Computing and Technology

April 2010

eAssessment for learningFour guiding principles

• The emphasis placed on feedback.

• Allowing multiple attempts.

• The breadth of interactions supported.

• The design for anywhere, anytime use.

Student views

“Interactive assessment (is) a particularly good

learning tool, if you are getting the answer wrong it

doesn’t give you the answer right away but gently

coaches you till you get it right yourself.”

OU student user of a COLMSCT iCMA 2007

Student views

“You don't always appreciate what you’re reading

and its significance, until you try and apply it.”

OU student user of a COLMSCT iCMA 2007

The emphasis placed on feedback (* demonstrate omdemo.pm2009)

The emphasis placed on feedback

• Sufficient feedback is provided, both often enough and in enough detail.

• The feedback is provided quickly enough to be

useful to students.

• Feedback is received by students and attended to.

• Feedback is acted upon by students to improve their work or learning.

Allowing multiple attempts.

The breadth of interactions supported.

The design for anywhere, anytime use.

• …you might see that navigation panel again

• …now shown

• …please visit the websites given later

Adding OpenMark features to Moodle

• Beginnings of OpenMark: 1996

– OU has 13 years experience with using interactive questions

• Latest version of OpenMark: 2005

• In OU Moodle: – Feedback: 2006– Improved on-screen navigation (of current

position and question history): 2007– Multiple attempts: 2008

OU e-assessment usage

OU Moodle

•Demonstration (* using the main university Moodle servers – use icma02 on Learning about eAssessment)

•A publicly accessible version can be found at http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3484

Where are we now?

•The end of the beginning

• Into OU Moodle for September 2010

• Into Moodle 2.0 & 2.1

•What about the Lesson?

•Other navigators…

Phil Butcherp.g.butcher@open.ac.uk

Where we are coming from

http://www.open.ac.uk/colmsct/projects/icma

http://www.open.ac.uk/openmarkexamples

Where we have reached

http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3484

A showcase of projects supported in OpenMarkFor interactive demonstrations please visit the websites on the previous slide.

The presentation at MoodleMoot 2010 uses live demonstrations. The following slides are provided for any reader of this Powerpoint presentation.

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A showcase of interactive questions in OU MoodleFor interactive demonstrations please visit the websites on the slide 12.

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