Hello all.
Having finally drawn breath now the first few weeks of term are over I have
realised that I didn't digest the responses to my enquiry about diagnostic
questionaires - sorry!
As quite a few people emailed me to express interest in this topic here is
a digest of some of the responses along with some handy links people sent
me:
Several people recommended taking a look at the work done by Quebec:
http://crepuq.qc.ca/documents/bibl/formation/studies_Ang.pdf
Loughborough have piloted diagnostic tests created within Questionmark
perception with PhD students last year and politics UG.
Points to consider:
* whether the test will be in print or electronic format, e.g. questionmark
perception, castle etc
* completed within class time, outside of it etc.
* you need to be very clear about what you are trying to assess (so what
learning outcomes), whether it is knowledge or understanding
* whether you are going to get students to assess own levels of competency
* what style questions you are going to use .e.g multiple choice, true /
false etc.
Angela Newton and colleagues at Leeds University has delivered a diagnostic
test to students based on the Quebec test
http://crepuq.qc.ca/documents/bibl/formation/studies_Ang.pdf and she gave a
talk at LILAC, details of her paper are at
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/csg/csg_ilg/lilac_sessions.html#new
Selina Lock at Leicester University has also been writing a diagnostic
test. Selina delivered a paper at eLit 2005 about what she has been doing,
copies of which are available at:
http://apps.iteu.gla.ac.uk/elit/presentations.jsp?confID=4&proposalNo=22
Kirsty Barker at the OU has done a lot of work on their online test
University of Sunderland has excellent online materials including a test.
Oliver Pritchard gave a brilliant talk at eLit 2004 about their work
http://www.elit-conf.org/elit2004/docs/sess2rmd2.html
Imperial College has an online tutorial called Olivia that has a diagnostic
test within it as well as quizzes throughout.
Hope this helps,
Kate
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