Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Quizzes


http://www.classmarker.com/embedded_quizzes/?quiz=ed91a4ed4fcbf1190b53db2ff6526914

Quizzes- refer to fun quizzes you can do, share with friends or create your own. This is a link to the little test I created. The Quizz is about the beach-you are welcome to have a go. Quizzes would be a fun way for the teacher and the students to find out information about other classmates, especially at the beginning of the year.

Quizzes can also be used as a more seriously , they can be used as an assessment tool to assess the students learning. Online quizzes provide the oppurtunity to be checked anywhere anytime as long as you have access to the world wide web, also you could say it is more environmentally friendly taking away the use of paper. These quizzes could also be used as a guidline for students to asses where they are along the learning journey. Thelwall (2000) states "There are many types of Computer-Based Assessment in use today in higher education, from formative self-tests to summative final exams".

Thelwall, M,. (2000). Computer-based assessment: a versatile educational tool. computer source, retreived 16th Augast 2009 from
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