Testing, examinations and student interaction.
Hi All;
I have been trying to setup a "learning section" for a website dedicated to the education if professional oncologists and have been using Drupal with fairly good results, however, I have a problem when it comes to the testing, scoring, examinations and general user interaction/contributions. There appears to be nothing available that will handle quizzes, exams etc. other than the 'Quiz' module [which works very nicely - for what it does].
Basically what has everyone been doing to test their users/students? I see a lot of [great] information here about how to deliver content, build the site, but next to zero on actually testing. [?!]
Is anyone doing this? What modules are you using? I'm using just quiz, but other question types are needed [like short answer, essay etc.] ..
-best regards
-sean
If you use the Gradebook
If you use the Gradebook module, it is my impression that you can use any content type for an assignment, and then apply a grade to it. This provides a way for you to give feedback back to a learner, although obviously not immediate feedback like the Quiz module does.
Self assessment
Hi Dwees;
thanks for the reply, I have previously looked at gradebook, but it does not really fit the bill in this situation. I think maybe "self assessment" would be a more appropriate description of what I am trying to accomplish here....
many of these questions will be subjective, open to debate and opinions ... hence do not lend themselves well to something that will be monitored/marked. More of a discussion and "correct by quorum"
But still, even if it would work, it leaves the community with:
For testing/examination etc....
-sean
I think nothing can beet the
I think nothing can beet the Moodle Quiz engine. The Classroom environment that a moodle course allows is great as well. It would be great to use moodle for the lessons and quiz and Drupal for it's community.
Would you like to look at integrating Moodle with Drupal?
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HI Shyamala;
I have been looking at Moodle, and it will be used for the 'actual' courses, the 'integrated' learning tools/exercises, are more of a teaser/seeds for discussion than anything so we are trying to keep it simple[ish]
but the way things are starting to look for testing/quiz modules - that may be the only option!
-sean
Hi Sean, I use gradebook,
Hi Sean,
I use gradebook, webform, and some custom content types for online assignments. All of my testing is still done on paper in the classroom, which I prefer. I am not clear on what you mean by "self assessment." If it doesn't lend itself to something that would graded, monitored, or marked, then what kind of interaction are you looking for?
If its not currently possible to do it in Drupal, then it might present an opportunity for a Summer of Code project. Can you describe what the module/code would accomplish and what the UI would be like from the student's, teacher's, and administrator's point of view?
Thanks
SOC
Hi MGN;
This is the requirement that I got.... almost more of a 'seeded discussion' I guess?
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I don't need the answers to be 'evaluated' by the script. All I really need is a blank field below the question where the participant can type in their answer. That answer is then 'submitted' to a page that displays the correct answer (which the administrator has contributed) and the participant's submitted answer below (so participants can compare theirs with the correct answer). If we could have a link to other users' answers, perhaps somehow input automatically into the comments section upon completion (wish we could rename it to something other than comments) or a discussion forum, so participants can view each other's answers and discuss.
Until we receive MC questions, there will be no way to evaluate answers. So for now I'd like to have a "your answer - ", "correct answer - " for self-evaluation.
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-sean