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Using Online Weekly Quizzes in a Numeracy Unit within a University Preparation Courser.robertson@ecu.edu.au Edith Cowan University Australia
AbstractEdith
Cowan University (Perth, Western Australia) offers a University Preparation
Course to provide entry to degree programs to school leavers and mature
age students who do not fulfil traditional entry requirements. The Course
contains a Numeracy unit which involves over 300 students, spread over
four campuses, and coordinated and taught entirely by sessional staff.
In this paper a discussion is provided of the advantages and disadvantages
the author experienced with integrating online weekly quizzes into the
Numeracy unit. The quizzes are administered by Blackboard, a Learning
Management System that allows students to access material and quizzes
anytime via the internet. The Numeracy unit is comprised of eleven modules
and each has an associated quiz to provide incentive for students to ˇ§keep
up to dateˇ¨ with their work. The quizzes are also made available
to students in the week prior to their final exam for revision purposes.
Answers are not provided to weekly quizzes but are included with the revision
quizzes. This paper outlines the design of the quizzes and technical issues
involved with their implementation using the Blackboard platform. In addition,
the author realises that students may guess or have help completing the
quizzes, so the author looks at the reliability of the within term quiz
results by comparing them with the final exam mark associated with similar
multiple choice questions. |
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