http://www.docott.com/education/2006/04/07/my-assessment-of-online-assessment-d/ My views on the current and future educational state of America Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:02:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.docott.com/education/2006/04/07/my-assessment-of-online-assessment-d/#comment-5 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 08:21:38 +0000 http://www.docott.com/education/2006/04/07/my-assessment-of-online-assessment-d/#comment-5 My experience is that you can use multiple choice to test deep chemical understanding but you have to make the questions up yourself. I have found all publisher supplied questions to be unusable for a thorough assessment. I have been using automated grading in organic chemistry for 4 years and I am satisfied that it can be done correctly. It does, however, require a lot of time up front to create a question bank that provides a concept testing profile similar to a written test. It is also important to provide sample quizzes ahead of time so that students understand what is being asked in the question format. Most of the questions I use cannot be answered without writing out the answer in a format similar to a written test. My experience is that you can use multiple choice to test deep chemical understanding but you have to make the questions up yourself. I have found all publisher supplied questions to be unusable for a thorough assessment. I have been using automated grading in organic chemistry for 4 years and I am satisfied that it can be done correctly. It does, however, require a lot of time up front to create a question bank that provides a concept testing profile similar to a written test. It is also important to provide sample quizzes ahead of time so that students understand what is being asked in the question format. Most of the questions I use cannot be answered without writing out the answer in a format similar to a written test.

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