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Definition and characteristics of a smart quiz

How to implement the smart quiz in Moodle

Why should you choose the smart quiz?

Definition and characteristics of a smart quiz

The smart quiz is a multiple-choice answer questionnaire, which we cannot answer by ticking the boxes at random

The intelligent quiz makes it possible to evaluate high cognitive level objectives; it prevents "answer by elimination" type strategies.It is not just a question of examining the level of knowledge but also of assessing understanding: Analyse, link, integrate, transform information, and put the knowledge acquired and the ability to evaluate information as well as draw conclusions into practice.

A little tour of Bloom's taxonomy on cognitive skills here:

The four characteristics that make the quiz "intelligent"

A question bank

Different types of questions

Immediate feedback

The degrees of certitude

Possible questions?

In this type of quiz, we mix a whole lot of different questions such as:

1. Find the right answer and justify why the others are false
2. An absurd answer amongst the answers
3. Many correct answers possible
4. All the answers are correct
5. Lack of information in the statement or an absurd statement
6. Find the best possible answer or the most probable explanation
7. A simple negative choice amongst five suggested answers
8. There is no correct answer

A small tour on Moodle to see the types of questions possible, it's here

Before designing your quiz, it is important to think about...

• Is the MCQ assessment appropriate?
• What type of questions will assess learning?
• How to create the questions?
• How to establish the score?
• How to automate the award?
• How to analyse the results and thereby make decisions?
• Which type of feedback is most helpful to students?

click here and browse through the Leuven Learning Lab's excellent little guide to help you answer these questions and come up with some imaginative questions(in French only)

How to create a quiz in Moodle

The test activity allows you to design and create quizzes made up of a wide variety of question types and parameters such as duration, number of attempts and type of feedback.The questions are kept in a question bank and can be reused in different quizzes.

You can mix your types of questions

• Multiple choice questions
• True-False
• Short answers
• Drag-and-drop images, texts, sound files etc.

In addition...

• Automatic correction and feedback, the time invested will be returned!
• You can also add group activities or user activities (extra time).

The question bank

• There are 3 to 5 questions per concept
• Several editors are welcome !
• Make sure that the level of difficulty of the questions is the same for each concept!
• A random selection of questions is planned during the exam
• Avantage 1 : allows you to train several times
• Avantage 2 : avoids cheating

All about the Moodle question bank?it's here

THE QUESTION BANK

Advice

• The title of the question is useful to facilitate sorting.
• Copy and paste the question content from bloc-notes rather than from Word, Open Office or another, that may insert unwanted code.
• Use an Excel file to import a large number of questions at the same time.
• Contact the DLC to receive the file: DLC-helpdesk@grenoble-em.com

Allows you to create, preview and modify categorized questions.

The categories may be limited to use in the site, in the course or in an activity.

You can export and import the question bank to several courses, but be careful: remember to respect copyrights. It is possible to manually or randomly select questions from the categories of the question bank to create the test.

All the explanations to practice creating a quiz are on Moodle

Click here for the results(in French only)

Click here for settings

Click here for settings

Feedback is precious for the student because...

1. They know why they answered correctly
2. They know why they answered incorrectly
3. It is immediate (with or without the grade)
4. They know their strengths and their weaknesses and so that’s how they will progress

On Moodle, we can give interactive feedback with multiple tests and degrees of certainty

General feedback

For each question

When to do it?

Feedback afterwards or immediately

Text shown to the student when he or she has completed an attempt at a test

Gives information on the knowledge tested by the question

Feedback on Moodle

Step by step in Moodle, here

The degrees of certitude

Or how to assess the state of knowledge of the student by comparing his knowledge to the level of confidence he has placed in his answer.

After each answer, the student must estimate the probability that his answer is correct: his degree of certainty of having the correct answer. In pedagogy, we speak of meta-cognition: the mental activity in a student that allows him/her a quantitative assessment of what they know that they know and they know that they do not know. In other words, the assessment of the student's state of knowledge by comparing his knowledge to the level of confidence he has placed in his response.

Providing a correct / incorrect answer to a question reflects a state of knowledge that depends on what the student thought when answering. 4 states of knowledge:

• Conscious knowledge
• Lucidity, or conscious “lack of knowledge”
• Uncertainty, or unconscious knowledge
• The illusion, or "lack of knowledge" made aware by the "presence of knowledge"

After the test is handed in, the student will see the answer key and the mark for his questions, adjusted according to his chosen degree of certainty.

From unconscious incompetence to enlightened certainty

• Certain: your answer is correct and you were 80% sure or more
• Uncertain: your answer is correct but you were not sure (60% or 70% certainty)
• Declared ignorance: you did not know the answer - degree of certainty 50%
• Presumed error: your answer is incorrect, but you doubted it (60% or 70% certainty)
• Dangerous error: your answer is incorrect and yet you were 80% or more sure that it was correct

The degrees of certitude in Moodle, here

On Moodle, what can the student see?

Example

Example

Why have you chosen the smart quiz?

Don't choose the smart quiz if

I have chosen the smart quiz because

• I don't have time to develop it upstream
• I prefer to offer an assessment of the highest cognitive levels: analysis, creation ...
• This type of evaluation does not allow the evaluation of the teaching activities and my learning objectives.

• It is difficult for students to cheat
• It makes the student think : median cognitive learning level
• I don’t have time for correcting
• It allows for harmonious team working
• We can use a formative assessment and a certificate based evaluation
• Gives immediate feedback to the student

VS

Points of vigilance!

• Students must be trained in this evaluation method
• In a certificate based evaluation: if the quiz lasts 30 minutes, double the time should be allowed for the students

And if you offered your students to take their own smart quiz?

• It is an excellent training exercise for the students.
• It is impossible to build a smart quiz without knowing the course well
• To be developed as a group
• And why not a small intergroup competition?
• And why not let the teacher take the quiz in order to gauge the quality and difficulty of the questions, to test the teacher's knowledge...?
• It is an excellent exercise for the teacher in view of the final quiz

Thank you!