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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? As a general rule, a good question tests the 6-levels of intellectual understanding, as espoused in Bloom’s Taxonomy : Knowledge. How to Create Effective Tests and Quizzes.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Im a (K)nitwit!

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As I was struggling to figure out once more how to purl, I thought about the spacing effect and forgetting. These two resources came to mind: For more on the spacing effect, be sure to read this 2006 article by Lars Hyland: Less Learning More Often. Ive forgotten most everything I learned the last knitting go-around.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

He suggests a list of potential outcomes with check boxes , effectively allowing the learner to create his or her own objectives. Atleast in India, I guess most of us strictly follow Blooms Taxonomy and frame learning objectives. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

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#TwistedTropes 32. Goliath's huge weapon

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No matter what the size and power of your 'weapons', if you can't use them effectively, you needn't bother. Next time: 33: Bloom's bonkers taxonomy Previous posts in the #TwistedTropes series (Don't read them all at once). The same applies to our technologies and educational methods. And that's about the size of it. Unported License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brent Schlenker: Marketers and Game Developers Know More About Learning Than We Do!

Learning Visions

People know how to read and when packaged well articles can be pretty effective when combined with appropriate media activities, presentations, and practice opportunities. Think about the trouble that many ISDs (as well as ISDs trapped in oppressive cultures) have moving beyond the simplest end of Bloom's taxonomy / Costa's Q levels.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Value of Instructional Designers

Learning Visions

Sometimes that means using technology solutions, where I need to know both what technology will be effective and how to implement it. We can talk about the training-wheel versus guard-rail effect.) Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 4:59 PM Rupa said.