Thursday, June 11, 2009

Online Testing

Take our online test
Here is the link to the online test I created using classmarker. When I was teaching middle school the life science department collaborated on every unit. I loved that. We worked together to write tests, assignments, etc. This would have saved us a bunch of time and effort however we would have had some difficulty executing the use of this online test. Having a student go home and take the test seems too loose. They could easily cheat. But, there are only two computer labs available to us so we would have to stack our classes over the course of a week and with that kind of delay in time the last classes to have taken the test would be aware of what was on the test because they would have talked to their friends.

Alison, have you ever used an online test? Do you have ideas on how to make this option work? It seems that this would be really quick and useful if you had enough computers in your classroom to have the kids take the test in one class period. Grading would be a cinch! But without that you've got problems.

1 comment:

  1. http://yacapaca.com/ would be great, lots of online tests and quizzes. I also love Google docs form function, and it reports all results to a spreadsheet that can make analysis great1Have you ever tried it? We did the presidential election and it is strong! That way you could come back to your classroom and have privacy but well collected data that is ready to use, also exports to excel.

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