Students creating a questions for peers to answer

Hi

This is a very interesting idea. I know of a case study where level 3 students, as part of their summative assessment, write MCQs for level 1. These questions are then reviewed and marked on s specific criteria by the tutor, and the best ones are used with level 1 students.

There are a couple of different ways of doing this.

How many students?

Would it all be in one test, or separate test presented by each student?

How many questions per student?

Would the students be collating the marks, or do you what to do this?

Will the results be anonymous

Version 1 ‘clickers’

Small group, small number of questions, quick turn around in question-to-feedback, MCQ type questions

Students write the questions using turningpoint software, available on the network. These slides can then be copied and pasted into one big powerpoint presentation. All the students attending session get a clicker and answer questions, student who wrote the question stands up and says which was the right answer and why.

Advantages – ensures participation, students can ask questions and get feedback from you or the writer of the question

Disadvantage – have to organise session, book out clickers, session might drag on depending on numbers of students and questions.

Guide - Clickers (Classroom Voting Systems)

Version 2 ‘Survey monkey’

Large group, large number of questions, students manage the collating of results, allows wide range of question types

Students use this free online tool, create their questions, distribute to urls via blackboard. Students answer questions, and receive any feedback that the student provided. Students can review results.

Advantages – good for large groups, students manage the whole process promoting independence

Disadvantage – students might get questionnaire fatigue and not answer them all. This is an external service, and student will be required to submit details in order to create an account – so there are data protection issues. Answers are anonymous

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Version 3 ‘BOS’ Bristol Online Survey

Large group, large number of questions, students manage the collating of results, allows wide range of question types

This is the same as the version above only this is ljmu hosted service, so no DP issues.

Guide - BOS (Bristol Online Survey)

Version 4 EXCEL and Blackboard

Large group, large number of questions, MCQ question type only, marks are not anonymous, staff member collates the marks

Students create a very simple excel spread sheet, which is sent to tutor. The tutor then uses a special blackboard tool to import the excel spread sheets. This create a single quiz or multiple quizzes in blackboard. Student can then do the online tests. The marks for the tests can be collated and are not anonymous. Students get basic feedback on what the right answer was

Advantages – good for large groups, marks are not anonymous, questions are easily reviewed by staff member, questionnaires can be randomised so students don’t all sit the same quiz but all do the same number of questions

Disadvantage – tutor has to upload questions (which is only a couple of clicks), questions don’t contain feedback

Guide - Creating questions in excel and uploading them into blackboard

Further Advice

Best practice would point for students to understand the basics of writing a good MCQ question

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