[Using Sakai] Student contributed assessment questions

[Karen Tsao]

Hi Louis,

I think what Buchan's suggestion of setting up a site with right permission
for students should be a work around for Samigo as well. I can think of
following three ways:

1. As Buchan's mentioned, set up a site so that students can create
assessments. Let students create questions in assessments. Import the
assessments into the course site through "Import from Site". Then you can go
through the assessments and copy the questions to question pool.

2. Set up a site so that students can create assessments. Add the instructor
as a site member as well. Let students create questions in question pool.
Starting 2.6, Samigo allows site members sharing question pools. So the
instructor can get the questions created by students.

3. Set up a site so that students can create assessments. Let students
create questions in assessments. Export the assessments and send the XML
files to the instructor. Instructor can then import them into question pool.

Thanks,
Karen

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Buchan, Janet <jbuchan at csu.edu.au> wrote:

> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org on behalf of Algaze,
> Louis J
> Sent: Sat 15/08/2009 7:35 AM
> To: Sakai Server
> 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
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