Adaptive Quizzes

Carles AguilóRamon Eixarch

WIRIS math & sciene

“Adaptive Learning is an educational method which uses computers as interactive teaching devices. Computers adapt the presentation of educational material according to students' learning needs, as indicated by their responses to questions and tasks.” Wikipedia

Several models overlap Expert model e.g. solution to the question Student model e.g. adaptation based on

student activity Instructional model e.g. hints/feedback

Adaptive Learning

Moodle activity to create QUIZZES based on Adaptive Learning

principles Item pool calibrated difficulty Expert designed flow.

Based on student performance. STEM oriented / emphasis Contributed to the community

AdaQuizzes

Inherited from the Quiz module:

Creating questionnaires is similar to the default Moodle Quiz module.

Complete teacher reviews. Ability to use any question type available

in Moodle.Compatible with WIRIS quizzes question types for math and science.

AdaQuiz–Moodle Activity

The specific enhancements of Adaptive

Quiz are the jump rules which are based on: Choice based on grading thresholds. Direct successor (no choice at all). Students choice.

STEM topics oriented Quantitive measurement of correctness

AdaQuiz–Moodle Activity

PENDING code style review Different from Adaptive Quiz by Adam

Franco Item pool calibrated difficulty

Adaptive Quizzes in Moodle.org

DEMO

Regular QUIZZ activity including an JUMP icon

Edit JUMP

If FAILgo to Question 2

If CORRECTfinish

Questions used in an Adaptive Quiz are

independent questions Random parameters make more sense

randomly selected questions Randomness is generated with a random

seed Random seed is changed every time quiz is

displayed Questions are aware of the random seed to

show the same data

Random seed

Student may decide it’s own trace Not by default

Student choice

2012 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

First prototype Moodle 1.9 Pilot

2013 CIRAX & UOC Version for Moodle 2 Content creation by UOC

2014 Catalan Government - High school system Installation in Ágora «Moodle farm»

Development by WIRIS math & science

Project background

CIRAX = «ICOLR» www.cirax.cat

Interuniversity Collaboration for Online Learning Resources

Database of teaching resources Creation of adaptive resources

Math Quizzes http://matesquizzes.cirax.cat A-Levels Questions (Baccalauréat)

Guest access Looking forward to more content creators, testers and

translators

CIRAX

Moodle.org

Pending approval, very soon GITHUB

www.github.com/adaquiz Evolution based on community interest

Just a newborn, much improvement ahead WIRIS team’s first experience in Open Source UOC, CIRAX, DoE have promoted and joined.

Will you?

Future

Carles Aguilócarles@wiris.com@carles_wiris @wirismath

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