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Tests and Quizzes Tool(aka SAMigo)

Marc Brierley, Stanford University T&Q Lead Designer http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SAM


Agenda

• Design Origins• Feature Overview

– Focus on pedagogical flexibility using templates

• Short Demo• Futures


Where did the design originate?• Formative Assessment (Homework)

– Stanford Assignment Tool for Human Biology

– CourseWork CMS with Language Tools (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded)

– OKI Tools Workshop to Specify Functionality(Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded)

– OKI Formative Assessment Tool(Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded)

• Summative Assessment (High-Stakes tests)– OnCourse Quiz Tool


Where did the design originate?• OKI Tools Workshop

– Many schools met to define needs for a CMS

– One group specified the needs for an Assessment Tool

– Several hundred functional requirements identified


Where did the design originate?• Assignment and Assessment Manager – Supports teaching and learning in large lecture science courses and in language instruction

– This OKI Tool was developed at Stanford

– Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded


Where did the design originate?• AAM design combined with OnCourse Quiz tool design “Navigo” (2003)

• Stanford and Indiana join Sakai project, Stanford rewrites tool to Sakai Style Guide TPP, tool renamed SAMigo (2004-present)


What are T&Q’s features:• Assessment Authoring• Assessment Publishing• Assessment-taking Management• Assessment Grading• Question Pools Management• Template Management


Organize & Publish Assessments• Core (pending) Assessments for a course

– Starting page for assessment authoring– Can be ex/imported in QTI XML format– When ready, published via settings

• Published Assessments for student assessment-taking– When students respond, scores link appears– Can change release, due, retract dates



Question Types• Multiple Choice (single and multiple correct)

• Multiple Choice Survey• True/False• Matching• Essay/Short Answer• Fill in the Blank• File Upload• Audio Recording** in future Sakai 2.x release



Rich-Text Everywhere• WYSIWYG editor

Fonts, style, layout, images, HTML, links

• In section headers, question texts, selections for responses, and feedback



Pedagogical Flexibility• Online test• Self-study questions• Homework, problem-sets• Paper, code, or project submission

• Language drills• Quick knowledge probes• Surveys• Others???


Templates• Create assessment “types” for different disciplines, different uses

• Hide complexity by selecting what which settings are visible to the instructor.

• Pre-set defaults by making setting choices for the type (e.g., Self-study always has immediate feedback)


Template Workflow







Online Test• Unique tests for each student

– Randomized order of questions– Randomized draw from question pools

• Timed test-taking during access window– Auto-submit at end of timed period

• One submission only per student• Higher Security

– IP Addresses restricted– Secondary Password (proctored)

• No late submissions accepted• Scores transferred to gradebook



Self-Study Questions

• Immediate feedback• Random access to Questions

– Table of contents– Marked for review list

• No record of score in gradebook• No due date; always available to student

• Unlimited submissions allowed



Homework/Problem Sets• Published with multiple release and due dates for different sections

• Multiple methods for handling late submissions

• Students can save work during assignment period.

• Auto-grading with methods for diagnosing learning problems

• Quick-reviews of student aggregate performance by instructors viewing histograms, statistics.

• Pools for organizing questions for reuse


Essay and Project Submission• Use file upload question type for submitting any type of document

• Grader can download assignment; upload marked-up file to return to student

• Grades are recorded in gradebook


Question Pools

• Organize questions into multiple subpools

• Author Questions from within Pool Mgr.

• Randomly draw from pools for an assessment




Demo































T&Q 2.1 Highlights• “Section-Aware” grading - assessments filtered by section (e.g. discussion, lab)

• Workflow improvements (based on 2.0.1 usability testing)

• Code refactored to expose tool API– looser coupling to Sakai (or other CMS)

– clean stand-alone build


T&Q post-2.1 Future

• Audio-recording question type (Stanford)

• Others– Export assessment results – Release assessments to specific classes and sections

– Department/school-level templates– Question Pool sharing by group, import/export


NEW! Assessment Tools DG• First BOF

– Time: Thursday 7:30-8:30am– Location: Salon J

• Possible Topics– current usage and best use recommendations for assessment tools

within Sakai– assessment pedagogy (both formative and summative)– user interaction and tool design– assessment tool interoperability with other tools (e.g. Tests &

Quizzes with Gradebook) and standards compliance (e.g. IMS-QTI)– process for feature requests and prioritization– future plans for assessment tools


Questions?


ContactsMarc Brierley, Stanford University T&Q Lead Designer [email protected]

Lydia Li, Stanford University T&Q Project Manager [email protected]

Homepage:http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SAM

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