[Using Sakai] Student contributed assessment questions

[Buchan, Janet]

Getting students to devise questions to contribute to assessment tasks is certainly a tried & tested sound pedagogical way to get in depth learning. It would depend on what the final intention of collecting the questions is as to how you might collect them. i.e. is it a collaborative exercise in learning & validating a questions & answers, does everyone see everyone else's questions? do you get everyone to contribute questions & then review the final test & the learning experience would be to determine what were successful questions & why.
For most purposes one probably needs some sort of instructor validation of the assessment items.
 
We have moved from a homegrown MCQ tool to Mneme.
I can't see a way for students to add questions directly to a pool in a course site via Mneme unless permissions were changed. This could perhaps be done if a project site were set up for student use with correct permissions & the questions fadded by students from that site imported into the course site.
 
What comes to mind on collecting questions from students would be:
1. Use the wiki - students add their questions & answers to a wiki. Students valiadate the questions & answers collaboratively before the instructor transfers to the quiz tool (Mneme). Obviously everyoen is on equal footing with prior viewing of the question pool & a random selection could be used in the final test.
2. Use Mneme to collect the questions. The student task could be to contibute 5 queastions via a text file or direct text input. Students can attach a Word file & submit. Instructor then validates questions & adds to the question pool.
3. Direct email to instructor.
 
Janet

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From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org on behalf of Algaze, Louis J
Sent: Sat 15/08/2009 7:35 AM
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Subject: [Using Sakai] Student contributed assessment questions


Hello,

An instructor asked me if students could be given permissions to enter assessment questions into the interface which the instructor could then combine into a pool.  I suggested having them submit questions in the Quick Create format and then the instructor combine them in MS Word.  

Has anyone though about the best way to collect assessment questions from students which can then be turned into a test?

Thank you,

Louis Algaze