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Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

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Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

General feedback issues


Feedback is usually helpful and something that can help us grow as students or instructors. However, sometimes the different types of feedback that can be delivered with Quiz can be too much. Giving General Feedback, Item feedback, and Feedback for each correct or incorrect response puts a lot of information on the student's test, some of it too general to be of any real use. Look at this question, which is the same one we used in our first multiple-response question, and look at the Before feedback and After feedback screenshots:

Before feedback:

After feedback:

You can see all three feedback areas displayed here. Next to the answers, you can see the response feedback. This feedback is fairly useful, because it gives the correct meaning for each word. Under the responses, you can see the feedback for an incorrect response. "Trying to review more before the next test" might not be as useful as the concrete feedback given previously. Finally, under the Submit button...