Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey by Mark Rollins

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Feedback Module

M. J. Rollins

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

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Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Table of Contents Table of Contents...................................................................................................................................3 Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey...............................................................................4 Why use knowledge Surveys?............................................................................................................4 How do you use a Knowledge Survey? .............................................................................................4 How do you create one......................................................................................................................4 Blooms Taxonomy .............................................................................................................................5 Sample Knowledge Survey Questions...........................................................................................5 Using Moodle Feedback with a Knowledge Survey............................................................................6 Settings required to use feedback as a knowledge survey tool.........................................................6 Analysis of Results and Responses....................................................................................................9 Showing Responses.........................................................................................................................10 Bibliography.....................................................................................................................................11

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey . What is a knowledge survey? “A standard Knowledge Surveys consists of many questions that cover the entire content of a course. Questions cover all levels of Bloom's scale of thinking. (From low-level to high-level cognition, the scale goes from knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, to synthesis.)” http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/assess/knowledgesurvey.html Knowledge surveys maybe formative (at the start of a course) or summative (at the end of the course).

Why use knowledge Surveys? They help students learn, help faculty improve their classrooms, and aid departments and programs as they explore new curricula or pedagogies. (Wirth and Perkins). In the power point presentation given by Perkins and Wirth they state the following reasons for supporting use of knowledge surveys •

Knowledge surveys are indispensable tools for instructors and for students.

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They aid instructors as they design courses.

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Allow for mid course corrections

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The surveys provide students with full disclosure of the course objectives and serve as study guides.

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Help students develop self-assessment skills

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Evaluate the effectiveness of alternative pedagogies.

How do you use a Knowledge Survey? Students at the start of the course or topic are given a series of question up to 200 in some cases; the students do not answer the question, but give a score of how confident they would be at answering the question. This provides a baseline information about their base knowledge preparation needs.

How do you create one. Generally a tutor would refer to a bank of exam papers going back over several years. To ensure all parts of the topic/subject are covered a range of questions are sorted in to topics. To ensure all levels of thinking are assessed, the tutor scores the question from one to six based on Blooms Taxonomy.

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey A useful resource/website divides Blooms Taxonomy in to tabular form with exemplars of terminology and use. http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/Dalton.htm

Blooms Taxonomy Higher Order Thinking

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Creating - designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making

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Evaluating - Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring

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Analysing - Comparing, organising, deconstructing, Attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating

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Applying - Implementing, carrying out, using, executing

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Understanding - Interpreting, Summarising, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying

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Remembering - Recognising, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding Lower Order Thinking

Sample Knowledge Survey Questions.

Blooms Taxonomy Level

Question What is the definition of a flood plain?

Blooms Taxonomy Level 1 Blooms Taxonomy Level 2

Outline the basic characteristics of a meandering channel.

Blooms Taxonomy Level 3

Explain why the outer bend of a meander has faster stream flow.

Blooms Taxonomy Level 4

Compare the river regime of a temperate climate with that of an Alpine regime. Judge the success of a river management scheme using an example from the British Isles.

Blooms Taxonomy Level 5 Blooms Taxonomy Level 6

Design and flood management scheme for your local river system assuming a 1 5

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey in 100 year flood event.

Using Moodle Feedback with a Knowledge Survey The Feedback module can be downloaded from http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?rid=95

Settings required to use feedback as a knowledge survey tool

a. Give your Feedback a title. b. This text will be displayed to users before they enter the feedback. In this case the instructions associated with the survey. c. Set open and close feedback, this allows you to set a time period during which the Feedback will be available to responses. d. In the case of a Knowledge Survey you will need to know who is giving the answers so set record users name to “Users' Names Will Be Logged and Shown With Answers”. Important in terms of knowledge survey is to “Show analysis to students” is set to yes. The summary results can be shown to respondents, or shown only to teachers. e. The other option available are depend on what you wish your students to do after completing the survey.

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Creating the questions

a. There are a number of options available but for the purpose of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knowledge Surveyâ&#x20AC;? we will use Multiple-Choice (Rated). This is similar to the multiple choice option, except that each option has a numerical value associated with it. From this it is possible to get an average grade if the multiple-choice (rated) option is used, numerical values are associated with each option, allowing an average or other measurements of responses.

b. Save the question and then continue to add the next question as before. c. Pick the type of question, type in the question and (tip) copy and paste answer criteria form previous question.

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey d. Once you have a bank of questions return to update and save changes.

e. To check your question you will need to change role to student

f. This is the screen the students will be presented with.

g. Once the student has completed the survey they will be shown this screen, however you could set up one to direct the students to an alternative page.

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Analysis of Results and Responses a. As a teacher again you have additional option to analysis or review student response, thus allowing you to gauge knowledge and review your curriculum.

b. Within the Analysis tab you will be able to view a list of all responses submitted for each of the questions within a Feedback activity. These results can be exported to EXCEL. Analysis gives you the ability to look at student response and gives an overview for all of your students, link this with responses and you can look at individual students. c. Analysis of Results

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Showing Responses

a. By clicking on show responses you can see an individuals response alone by clicking on that student, their response are revealed beneath.

Using Moodle to Complete a Knowledge Survey

Bibliography http://serc.carleton.edu/files/NAGTWorkshops/assess/knowledgesurvey/small_perkins_p.pdf

Understanding What Our Geoscience Students Are Learning: Observing and Assessing http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/assess/knowledgesurvey.html Applying Blooms Taxonomy http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/Dalton.htm Moodle Documents http://moodle.org/