Educational uses for Rev (was Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

[Judy Perry]

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?
>
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