Resource

Quiz

Author: ATU Galway

What is it?

This is a form of assessment where students are presented with a range of questions either formatively or summativley. A range of question types can be incorporated such as MCQ’s, pictures and short answer questions.

Advantages & Challenges

Advantages

Challenges

Advantages

Useful to engage and motivate students, to gauge students’ understanding or to reinforce learning.
Can be used to provide formative, contextualised and instant feedback on topic areas.
Suitable for use with large class sizes
For online quizzes, there can be time savings as question banks can be built-up over time and reused. Also, depending on the question type, feedback and grade provision can be automated. For students, they may offer the flexibility to take the online quiz remotely and at a time that suits them.

Challenges

Tips for Use

Provide students with clear instructions on the format and the timeframe that they must complete the quiz/short exercises.
Let students know the digital equipment/tools they need access to and if the assessment will be available to them remotely and or in an on-campus environment.
Ideally allow them a ‘practice run’ in advance of the quiz/short exercise, where they will complete and submit following the same instructions as you intend to provide on the day.
If running an online quiz, consider creating a bank of different questions. By doing this you could give different students a different bank of questions of have the questions randomised through your VLE.

Resources

University College Dubin (UCD): Quizzes/Short Exercises (ucd.ie)

Jordan, S. (2021a) Getting Started with Designing Online Quizzes. Dublin: UCD Teaching & Learning
Jordan, S. (2021b) Improving the Design and Use of your Online Quizzes. Dublin: UCD Teaching & Learning

Sample Rubrics

Chan C.(2008) Assessment: Oral Assessment, Assessment Resources@HKU, University of Hong Kong: TALIC – Assessment Resource Centre (hku.hk)

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