Indeed! Perhaps another educational use of Rev-based products would be exploratory learning... then assessed, perhaps, by the dreaded m/c questions
Judy On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Marian Petrides wrote: > > > Not only in teaching programming but in designing custom educational > > courseware. Who wants the student to have ONLY simple multiple-guess > > questions to work with? > > > > Life doesn't come with a series of four exclusive-or questions tattooed > > across it, so why give student this unrealistic view of the real world, > > when a little work in Rev will permit far more challenging interactivity? > > Agreed wholeheartedly. Education-related work was the largest single > set of tasks folks did with HyperCard, and for all the tools that have > come out since there remains an unaddressed gap which may be an ideal > focus for DreamCard. > > But moving beyond simple questions models like multiple choice is > difficult. The AICC courseware interoperability standard describes > almost a dozen question models, but most are variants of "choose one", > "choose many", "closest match", etc., sometimes enlived by using > drag-and-drop as the mechanism for applying the answer but not > substantially different from what gets tested with a simple multiple > choice in terms of truer assessment of what's been learned. > > The challenge is to find more open-ended question models which can still > be assessed by the computer. For example, the most open-ended question > is an essay, but I sure don't want to write the routine that scores > essays. :) > > What sorts of enhanced question models do you think would be ideal for > computer-based learning? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Media Corporation > ___________________________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution