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Confidence-based assessment in Quizmaker
Has anyone tried to implement confidence-based assessment, or certainty-based marking in Quizmaker.Confidence-based assessments evaluates the learner for correctness as well as their confidence with respect to the answer.As multiple choice questionsand true/false questions can be guessed it is hard to assess if the learner has guessed the correct answer or if they really know the material being tested. With confidence based assessment you ask how confident the learner was that the answer was the correct answer.
I'm currently trying to implement this in regard to testing knowledge of Microsoft Office products e.g Word Excel.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ger
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Try playing different quiz games. that will give u some ideas.
Hi Ger,
I'm working on a project for LINGOS where we're doing something similar. It's more around a "readiness plan" where the user certifies their level of preparedness. The activity was inspired by this Thanksgiving Readiness survey.
Now, we're building this in Storyline, but, you could use Jeanette's technique for creating multiple-response questions in Quizmaker. Or, another great option is Jeanette's assess & categorize learners demo in Quizmaker.
Please let us know if you think those ideas could work... We'd be happy to help you work it out.
I'm not sure how to implement certainty-based marking assessments in Quizmaker, but it may indeed be possible.
In the past, we have developed these assessments in SCORM-compliant elearning using custom programming in Flash. And because there was no place to record the additional certainty-based data in the LMS, we created a companion reporting website for admins to use, which showed details such as: how learners did as a group on each lesson's assessment and how a learner did on each quiz question.
I wish I could be more helpful with implementing it in Quizmaker. If you're interested, we did put together an article on our experiences with certainty-based marking that you might find interesting. ( go to http://www.docntrain.com/resource_view.php?id=43 )
