Oct 19 : On the use of Moodle quiz “adaptive mode” on summative assessment tasks

On the use of Moodle quiz “adaptive mode” on summative assessment tasks:

– the idealistic side of me responds immediately: it’s never too late to learn!   Adaptive mode will help students grasp the conceptual associations even as a parting kiss, a last chance!

– the realistic side of me notes that summative assessment is usually limited in time, and this will affect any decision to use adaptive mode.  While an experienced teacher can estimate quite accurately how long it will take for a group of students to do 100 MC questions with single-answer / no looking at the result responses, it is much more difficult to estimate how long it will take students to do 100 MC questions with adaptive mode / keep answering until you find the right response.   Especially when 100 MC questions are paired with an essay or two in a 1.5 or 2 hour summative assessment exam, I would say that adaptive mode will penalize the lower-performing students, who will take much longer to explore all the wrong answers, and have much less time remaining to work on the essays!

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