Lecturers: Lewis Halsey, Abi Belai
Feedback and assessment are two key areas that the university is keen to develop as outlined in the 2009-2012 Learning Teaching and Assessment Strategy Goals. Lewis Halsey and Abi Belai are two members of staff who have for the past few years used the Moodle quiz tool to deliver an alternative forms of assessment and feedback to students within the Biosciences programme. The quiz tool provides a facility that allows staff to create online questions (allowing for various question types) that can be used for both formative and summative assessment.
Lewis in his module Physiology and Introductory statistics has incorporated a self test for students to complete on a weekly basis that is included as part of the resources available for each weeks topics. Feedback is built into the quiz questions and is made available to students immediately they complete an attempt with explanatory notes where relevant directing students to the right answer and relevant reading they should complete to understand the topic. The module also contains an in class test that students must complete and this counts towards their final grade. Having the self tests and quizzes online enables feedback to be made available to students shortly after they complete their attempt.
Abi Belai also uses the quiz tool for assessment on her module Pharmacology and Toxicology. She uses the reporting tool within Moodle to customise her feedback for students. After the quiz, Abi gathers statistics on the problem questions and incorporates her feedback in her classroom lecture discussing topics that seem problematic in more detail.
Several other modules within the Life sciences Department are also using the quiz tool to deliver online class tests. Some of these include
· Human Ecology and Adaptation - Todd Rae
· Cell and Evolutionary Biology - Francisco Molina-Holgado
· A Public Health Approach to Cardio-Metabolic Diseases- Joerg Huber
· Biosciences Research Methods- Lewis Halsey
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