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Understanding formative and summative assessments

What are formative and summative assessments? As per wikipedia – Formative assessment or diagnostic testing is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment.[1] It typically involves qualitative feedback (rather than scores) for both student and…Continue Reading Understanding formative and summative assessments

Moodle 2: Designing and Developing Multiple Choice Assessments

A key purpose of assessment is to provide feedback to students on their learning. Multiple Choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful tool for formative testing. The design and the embedding of feedback into MCQ items can be arguably the most important part of the exercise as well as the most time-consuming (Bull & McKenna,…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Designing and Developing Multiple Choice Assessments

Moodle 2: Creating visual quizzes

Have you ever thought about bringing a visual alive to really engage your students? So before you might have posted an image of a skeleton like the one you see on the left and let the students memorise the various parts. Moodle 2 will now enable you to create a visual quiz using an image…Continue Reading Moodle 2: Creating visual quizzes