Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment
eBook - ePub

Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

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eBook - ePub

Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

About this book

In Detail

Moodle is a free Course Management System (CMS), which is a web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle also has many effective modules and assessment techniques for testing that can be used for any subject. Computer-based testing is inevitable in any online teaching course. As you consider the benefits of computer-based testing you will want to easily create tests and instantaneously assess them.

Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment puts together a variety of modules and activities that allow us to easily create and deliver a variety of tests on any subject. It is a step-by-step guide that will assist you to develop and assess simple as well as complex quizzes and tests.

You will initially learn to create different types of questions such as short answer questions, multiple choice questions, and so on. After you have learned to create questions, you will learn to integrate all of them in a Moodle quiz to create a complete test by tweaking the various options. Next you will learn to create and set up a Lesson, which you can use to create simple vocabulary or flash card tests or complex tests.

You will learn to test and assess students through work submitted using Moodle Workshop. This module also provides an opportunity for self- and peer-assessment of your student's work. Then you will learn skill-specific tests such as listening, reading, speaking, and writing tests that will help you to judge a person's ability in a particular field. At the end of this book you will learn how you can grade tests using Moodle Gradebook.

This hands-on guide helps you to establish optimal tests that can be graded using Moodle modules.

A step-by-step tutorial that helps you to develop different types of tests using the various Moodle modules and activities and assess them using the Gradebook

Approach

This book is an illustrative how-to guide with many screenshots and examples that helps you to create simple to complex tests and assess them using Moodle. It covers effective usage of tools available in Moodle and offers some Moodle options that you may not have tried yet. It will guide you from the basic philosophy of online testing to creating skill-based assessments in Moodle.

Who this book is for

If you are a tutor or Moodle Administrator who is responsible for developing and evaluating an online test using Moodle, then this book is for you.

This book assumes that you have already successfully installed and set up a Moodle site for teaching.

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Information

Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2010
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781849512343
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Computer Science General
Index
Computer Science

Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

Table of Contents

Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Testing with Moodle Quiz
Moodle-based tests
What is Moodle Quiz?
Creating our first questions
Quiz features
General
Name
Introduction
Timing
Display
Attempts
Grades
Review options
Security
Common module settings
Overall Feedback
Creating a Quiz
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Save and return to course
Save and display
Cancel
Editing
Step 4
Info
Results
Preview
Edit
Step 5
Item choices
Calculated
Description
Essay
Matching
Embedded Answers (Cloze)
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Numerical
Random Short-Answer Matching
True/False
Options in True/False
Category
Question name
Question text
Format
Image to display
Penalty factor
General feedback
Correct answer
Feedback for the response 'True'
Feedback for the response 'False'
Step 6
After saving the question
Question Options
Sort
Action
Add to quiz
Preview
Edit
Move
Delete
Select
Select all/Deselect all
Question Name
Question Type
Adding Questions to the Quiz
Order
#(Number)
Question Name
Question Type
Grade
Total
Maximum Grade
Action
Show Page Breaks and Show Reordering Tools
Preview the Test
Question Name
Quiz Name
Question
Submit
Submit page
Submit all and finish
Fill with correct
Start again
Close preview
Step 7
Step 8
Your turn
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Step 9
Testing with True/False
Simple
Finding Value
True/False in formative testing
Self-assessment
Weaknesses in True/False
Summary
2. Multiple Choice Quizzes
Getting started
Categories and contexts
Miscellaneous/Course Category
Course
Activity
Multiple Choice item creation page
One or multiple answers
Shuffle the choices
Number the choices
Making a single response item
Step 1
Step 2
Making a multiple-answer item
Step 1
Grade
Partially correct feedback
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Results
Question design and formatting
Basic text formatting
Adding images to multiple-choice questions
Step 1
Step 2
Image URL & Alternate text
Layout
Alignment
Border thickness
Spacing
Horizontal
Vertical
Size
Width
Height
File Browser
Preview
Browse & Upload
Manual adjustments
Size
Layout
Adding multiple images
Create Folder
Multi-image multi-response
Adding a Web Link (Hyperlink)
Creating the Test
General feedback issues
Your turn
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Summary
3. More Question Types
Short Answer
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Incorrect response
Variations
Spelling
Multiple response
Creating Short Answer
Item #1
Item #2
Short Answer considerations
Numerical
Step 1
Step 2
Accepted Error
Step 3
Your turn
Numerical considerations
Variables and word problems
Matching
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Your turn
Matching considerations
Random Short Answer matching
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Random Short-Answer matching considerations
Calculated
Step 1
Step 2
Correct Answer Formula
Tolerance
Tolerance Type
Relative
Nominal
Geometric
Correct Answer Shows
Format
Step 3
Step 4
Update the datasets parameters
Param
Range of Values
Decimal Places
Distribution
Next Item to Add
Add
The manual way
The automated way (The easy way!)
Step 5
Delete
Step 6
Creating a multi-variable item
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Your turn
Calculation considerations
Embedded Answers (Cloze)
Short Answer — Cloze
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Numerical
Step 1
Step 2
Step 1
Step 2
Matching
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Embedded Answers (Cloze) considerations
Essay
Step 1
Step 2
Essay considerations
Description
Summary
4. Creating a Quiz
Getting started
The General section
Timing
Display
Attempts
Grades
Review options
Security
Common module settings
Overall feedback
Saving the test
Designing the test
Test introduction
Section introduction
Questions
Remaining sections
Adding to the Quiz
Previewing the test
Step 1
Step 2
Save
Quiz results
Overview
Result table
Deleting attempts
Exporting data
Preferences
Results graph
Regrade
Manual Grading
Item Analysis
Q#
Question text
Answer's text
Partial credit
R. Counts
R.%
% Correct Facility
SD
Disc. Index
Disc. Coeff.
Analysis options
Attempts to analyze per user
Don't analyze if score is less than 'X'%'
Questions per page
Exporting data
Importing and Exporting Questions
Importing Questions
File format
General
Category
Match grades
Stop on error
Import from file upload
Import from File already in course files
Exporting questions
File format
General
Category
Write category to file
Write category to context
File name
Quiz considerations
Summary
5. Using Lesson
What is a Lesson?
Creating a Lesson
General
Name
Time limit (minutes)
Maximum number of answers/branches
Grade options
Practice Lesson
Custom scoring
Maximum grade
Student can re-take
Handling of re-takes
Display ongoing score
Flow control
Allow student review
Display review button
Maximum number of attempts
Action after correct answer
Display default feedback
Minimum number of questions
Number of pages (cards) to show
Lesson formatting
SlideShow
Slideshow width and slideshow height
Slide background color
Display left menu
Display left menu only if g...

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