posted on 2009-04-28, 12:24authored byWill M. Davies, Hugh C. Davis
Generally itembanks are inaccessible to students. Current use of itembanks
focus on the teacher as having responsibility to organise questions (place
them in pools, associate them with course content) and make them
available/deliver them to students. This limits students to the teachers
perspective and to the questions that the teacher has made available. As the
practice of itembanking increases it may be appropriate to encourage
students to use questions from pools not directly prepared by their teacher. A
mechanism for searching across itembanks and sharing recommendations
with peers would be of help in facilitating this. We describe QuestionBuddy, a
collaborative filter based question portal for students, built to study student
usage of, and attitudes to, such a system.
History
School
University Academic and Administrative Support
Department
Professional Development
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CAA Conference
Citation
DAVIES, W.M. and DAVIS, H.C., 2006. QuestionBuddy – a collaborative question search and play portal. IN: Danson, M. (ed.). 10th CAA International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference : Proceedings of the Conference on 4th and 5th July 2006 at Loughborough University. Loughborough : Lougborough University, pp. 133-144