Archive for the 'Assessment' Category

iPod Quiz Wiz?

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Well, not really wiz – but quite reasonable at only 79p. Users of iPods have always been able to use the inbuilt Music Quiz in the games section to see if they can recognize the first few bars of any tune. More elaborate games have appeared in the last year, such as Tetris, [...]

Creativity – can we measure it?

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Last week, I organised a study day for colleagues on the subject of teaching, learning and assessment of improvisation and composition. The most complex issues arise when trying to assess creativity. Whilst there are no real problems in deciding what represents quality creative work, all hell breaks loose when we try to measure it. We [...]

Online Assessment

Friday, May 4th, 2007

In 2002, we had a way of accessing a rather rudimentary (but useful) form of online assessment in the form of WebCT.  Since we moved our main e-Learning platform to Portia we have looked at other ways of achieving this at Chichester.  We now have a limited number of licences for QuestionMark Perception and a [...]