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Category: Authoring
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We have always put great stress on the formative value of good feedback in Yacapaca quizzes. There is something about getting instant results that really engages the brain, and that creates a fantastic, but fleeting, opportunity to hit the student with an insight or challenge. Sometimes this works, but sometimes it does not. I have…
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Michael Record runs a popular Technical Authoring evening class at Broward Community College in For Lauderdale, Florida. He’s using a very effective mix of online and classroom teaching to do it, which he’s very kindly given me permission to profile here. The core of the course is the course blog. There is one entry per…
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I received an email from Luke Day of Charles Burrell High School in Thetford today. He said I have ceased using yacapaca because I…was faced with the end of my free membership. I had been keen on authoring my own materials and did produce a couple of tests, but as I understand it I would…
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In a previous post I covered the KUE model and bemoaned the infrequent application of U and E in multiple-choice questions. Assessing evaluative thinking in multiple choice may seem the hardest of the lot, because it’s the most abstracted form of learning. In fact, it’s relatively easy provided you are very clear about exactly what…
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The original 1988 National Curriculum couched learning achievement in terms of knowledge, understanding and evaluation (KUE), a cut-down version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. This remains, in my view, by far the most practical version for the working educator. The easiest way to set up an assessment is via multiple-choice questions. Building the technology to serve and…
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