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Category: Yacapaca

Assessing Evaluation with multiple-choice questions

08/08/2004

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…
Assessing Understanding with multiple-choice questions

08/08/2004

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…
The dog ate my homework

06/03/2004

The single biggest concern that I hear from teachers taking their first steps into elearning is that “computers are unreliable”. They fear lost work, broken connections, crashed servers – all things that can and do happen. Whilst I take full responsibility for problems that happen on Yacapaca, and work very hard to prevent them, I’ll…