Dear Forum,I and a number of my colleagues have been looking for a learning
management system (LMS) that addresses our needs as instructors. We would like
to be able to assign a reading to our students and then have them take an
online quiz before they come to class.
Do you know of any (inexpensive?) LMS options that address the following
criteria? (Blackboard and Qualtrics do not meet these criteria). NECESSARY:
-Students take a quiz (open book is fine) of, say, 20 questions (e.g. multiple
choice, fill in the blank, matching, etc.).-If they answer a question
CORRECTLY, they earn a certain number of points (e.g. 4 points for a 5-answer
multiple choice question).-If they INCORRECTLY answer a question, they are told
it was incorrect, and the question comes back to them again later, preferably
5-6 questions later. This way students need to re-think the process and try
again. It keeps coming back until they answer CORRECTLY.-Each time the
question is answered INCORRECTLY, the student gets a negative score (e.g.
-1).-Students must finish the quiz before a deadline, otherwise they get a 0
total score for the entire quiz.
For example,If they answer a question correctly on the first try = earn 4
points.…second try = 4 – 1 = 3 points…third try = 4 – 1-1 = 2 points…fourth
try = 4 - 1 -1 -1= 1 point…fifth try = 4 – 1 -1 -1 -1 = 0 points
Do you know of any LMS options that address the above "necessary" criteria
(incorrect answers come back and earn negative score, deadline)? I also listed
below some unnecessary but very useful items; do you know of any LMS that also
addresses any of these criteria?
Thank you,Shelly
Shelly Thomas, Ph.D.Department of BiologyJames Madison UniversityHarrisonburg,
VA 22807
UNNECESSARY, but would be great:-Students can sign off and come back to the
quiz anytime they want before a specific deadline (e.g. have the quiz open for
48 hours, they can take it anytime they want, sign in and out as often as they
wish, as long as they finish before the deadline).
-Randomization ...of questions (e.g, 40 questions given for the quiz, but only
a random 20 are chosen per student)....of answers (e.g. if multiple choice
question, the answers are set up randomly for each student).
-Feedback: professors can set up feedback for each answer (if they wish). For
example, if a student chooses an incorrect answer, the feedback comes up
explaining why that answer was incorrect.
-A useful, but not necessary feature would look at the metacognitive process of
each student. Are they thinking about how they think? How are they choosing
to learn? I have seen this done with a pre-question question. Students are
shown the multiple choice question (with or without the choices shown), and
before they can answer the quiz question, they are asked how sure they are of
their answer. Are you sure of your answer? (yes, probably, maybe, no-just
guessing). This can be scored by % (per category) of total number of attempts
+ correct/incorrect. Professors can then choose to give a grade based on the
actual score (see above scoring under "necessary") or based on their
metacognitive score (multiply the % for each category times a score chosen by
the professor, e.g. see scores below). Students decide for themselves how
confident they wish to be before answering the questions (and therefore what
kind of score they wish to earn). % Yes & Correct Answer (e.g. +1) % Yes
and Incorrect Answer (e.g. -0.25) % Probably & Correct Answer (e.g. +0.75)
% Probably and Incorrect Answer (e.g. -.1) % Maybe & Correct Answer (e.g.
+0.5) % Maybe and Incorrect Answer (e.g. -0.05) % No & Correct Answer (e.g.
0.1) % No and Incorrect Answer (e.g. -0.04)
