The print is too small to see here (and is also in Spanish), but the question is: "According to Melissa [a person interviewed for a short reading students had completed], many Latin Americans are 'kind and friendly'. Which of these pictures contains people that are like that?" Students had to look at the images and decide which one best represented those concepts, both of which are vocab words introduced in that chapter. Option B is the only one with friendly, smiling people: the others are either cold or bullies. Based on which option students selected, I was able to provide them with customized feedback, which I really liked, and I could also quickly and easily pull up the results to see how people did: what the average was for first attempts vs final attempts, the mean class grade, how long each student spent doing the quiz, etc.
Have you used GauchoSpace's quiz feature? How do you like it?
I've consistently enjoyed hearing your experiences and examples using the various technologies in class. =)
ReplyDeleteI have TA'd for courses that used the Gauchospace quiz feature, although I've never written a quiz myself. In my experience, one downside to the quiz feature is that students can repeatedly guess at multiple choice answers until they find the right one (although this may be an optional setting?). Another issue I've seen is when students are required to submit a numerical answer, Gauchospace will sometime get overly picky about rounding decimals.
I had no idea of the multimodal capabilities (e.x. integrating images), I can think of a few ways I could use this feature now that I know more about it!