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Blackboard Learn 9.1

Assessments, Part Two

Workshop Overview1

Workshop Roadmap

• Workshop Overview

• The Student Experience

• Creating Advanced Questions

• Creating Pools

• Advanced Test Creation

• Creating and Using Surveys

• Item Analysis

This workshop contains seven sections:

1 Workshop Overview

Student Experience2

Learning Outcomes

• Describe how advanced question types appear to students.

• Explain survey taking from a student’s perspective.

2 Student Experience

Hands-on Activity

• Use the Student Course to complete the hands-on activity at the end of the Student Experience section.

2 Student Experience

Creating Advanced Questions 3

Learning Outcomes

• Create advanced question types.

• Explain the advantages of adding metadata to questions.

• Add metadata to questions.

3 Creating Advanced Questions

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity in the Creating Advanced Questions section.

3 Creating Advanced Questions

About Metadata

Metadata describes data and helps you organize content, in this case questions. Tag questions with metadata to help you retrieve questions later. You can add the following types of metadata:

• Category

• Topic

• Levels of Difficulty

• Keywords

3 Creating Advanced Questions

About Metadata

You can create the metadata values and assign a specific value to a question during question creation or by editing an existing question.

3 Creating Advanced Questions

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity at the end of the Creating Advanced Questions section.

3 Creating Advanced Questions

Creating Pools4

Learning Outcomes

• Explain the advantages of using pools.

• Create a pool and add questions to it.

• Import a pool.

4 Creating Pools

About Pools

4 Creating Pools

A pool is collection of questions that can be stored for repeated use.

About Pools

4 Creating Pools

During test creation, you can find questions to include by searching pools.

About Pools

4 Creating Pools

You can also create a test containing a random block of questions drawn from a specific pool.

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity at the end of the Creating Pools section.

4 Creating Pools

Advanced Test Creation5

Learning Outcomes

• Create a test by finding questions.

• Create a test containing question sets.

• Create a test containing a random block of questions drawn from a pool.

5 Advanced Test Creation

Overview

5 Advanced Test Creation

There are four overall steps in creating a test by searching pools and assessments:

1. Build the test.

2. Specify the question settings.

3. Find and add questions.

4. Assign point values.

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity in the Advanced Test Creation section.

5 Advanced Test Creation

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity at the end of the Advanced Test Creation section.

5 Advanced Test Creation

Creating and Using Surveys6

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the lifecycle of a survey.

• Explain the differences between tests and surveys.

• Create and deploy a survey.

• View survey results.

6 Creating and Using Surveys

The Survey Lifecycle

6 Creating and Using Surveys

There are four major stages in the survey lifecycle.

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity in the Creating and Using Surveys section.

6 Creating and Using Surveys

Best Practice: Use Surveys Often

• Survey current knowledge at the beginning of your course.

• Ask questions about students’ approach to uncertainty and risk to allow them to demonstrate their analytical thinking.

• Use surveys to discover the muddiest point—the least clear concept in the lecture.

• Ask students to rate how challenging they found a lecture or module.

6 Creating and Using Surveys

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity at the end of the Creating and Using Surveys section.

6 Creating and Using Surveys

Item Analysis7

Learning Outcomes

• Run an item analysis on a test.

• Use the information in the item analysis to make your tests better.

• Discover which questions might be flagged for your review and investigate those questions.

7 Advanced Test Creation

Hands-on Activity

• Use your Practice Course to complete the hands-on activity in the Item Analysis section.

7 Advanced Test Creation

Workshop Wrap Up8

Key Concepts

• Create advanced question types, such as Jumbled Sentence, Fill in Multiple Blanks, Hot Spot, Opinion Scale/Likert, Quiz Bowl, and Calculated Numeric

• Explain the advantages of adding metadata to questions

• Add the four types of metadata to questions to help retrieve questions later

• Explain the advantages of using pools

• Create pools and add questions to them

• Import pools

8 Workshop Wrap Up

Key Concepts

• Create a test by finding questions

• Create a test containing question sets

• Create a test containing random blocks of questions drawn from pools and tests

• Describe the lifecycle of a survey

• Explain the differences between tests and surveys

• Explore ways to use surveys throughout your course

• Create and deploy a survey, and view survey results

• Run item analysis on a test

8 Workshop Wrap Up