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How to Create Effective Test Questions

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If every student answers a question correctly, does that mean your question is too easy, or is it a perfect example of an effective test question? How to Create Effective Tests and Quizzes. Image: “ Quiz ” by Animated Heaven, via Flickr Creative Commons License. The Purpose of a Good Test Question.

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The hidden audience effect

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In effect, S'cool Radio is taking a similar approach to Dave Mitchell's Quadblogging concept but developing it in another direction. What both projects have in common is their capitalisation on the 'hidden audience' effect. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Giant leaps

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Source: JPL/NASA) Wireless Headsets Astronauts need to be able to communicate effectively without being encumbered with trailing wires and cables. Source: Wikipedia) Related posts Small steps Giant leaps by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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How to Maximize Collaboration in Instructional Design

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Each stage of the process, from analysis and design to development, testing, implementation, and evaluation, requires a different mindset, skills, and expertise. Image by Michael Arrighi via Flickr Creative Commons License. To see an example of what you can do in CourseArc, watch our quick demo video.

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Tablets: The correct prescription

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A total of 27 quantitative studies on the use of tablets in schools dating from 2010 were analysed and the major finding was that the tools are most effective when used in student centred learning, rather than within teacher controlled environments (Tamim et al, 2015a). References Tamim, R. Borokhovski, E., Bernard, R. and El Saadi, L.

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Danger illustrated

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They are great at description, but ask them to move beyond this into critical analysis and they look at you and shrug. There are some great exemplars of effective education from across the ages. In essence the students were speculating based on their analysis of the bottle, and were also beginning to evaluate the worth of the bottle.

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

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Video has been used to encourage independent thinking and critical analysis, and in higher education for example, has been used successfully to promote active engagement and collaborative learning (Parlour, 2019). They need to find resources quickly and effectively, so navigation of content must be quick and simple. Unported License.

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