Quizzes on Powerpoint provide opportunity for a creative and engaging presentations. Students can take responsibility for their learning progress as they are able to resit the quizzes. The challenge for the learning manager would be to ensure that the student actually reads the questions and doesn't just press buttons to get the right answer.
Incorporating buttons is not difficult. I had some difficulty in understanding the options in the hyperlink menu, but practise will help.
Kearsley and Shneiderman(1999) recognises the cognitive processess of decision-making and reasoning in engagement theory, which are demonstrated in accessing a quiz. The fact that it is a digital medium will open doors to positive attitudes and perceptions for a digital native. For the learning manager, the quiz could be used as part of summative assessment or as a tool for assessing prior knowledge. Powerpoint quizzes could be used for teamwork or for individuals.
Overall, this technology is easy to use and access, is reuseable and assists in engaging the learner.
regards
Sue
Reference:
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999, April 5). Engagement Theory:A framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved December 1, 2009, from http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
Hi Sue
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, the challenge is for the LM to ensure students are actually reading the material and not just pressing buttons. Therefore it is important to use the powerpoint quizzes as part of an assessment process and not the only assessment tool.
Cheers
MRS B
I must say I agree that it is an issue to make sure that the students is not just pushing buttons. Just as a thought, I believe you can input spreadsheets into PPT files. With a spreadsheet the student could answer by typing a value in, and you can program the spreadsheet that if the value does not match the answer it will prompt them with incorrect, or correct for the right answer. Just a thought. Dave.
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