SPRInTA

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SPRInTA

• Student Portal Resources for Innovative Targeted
  Assessment
• FDTL-5
• November 2004 October 2006
• Nicola Bryan (Project Officer)
• Ben Steeples (Technical Officer)
• Helen Shepherd (Clerical Assistant)

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OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION

• What is the SPRInTA Project.
• Demo of progress to date.
• Student response and feedback.

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WHAT IS SPRInTA

• To address concerns about the support available
  to students on assessment and the provision of
  effective feedback.
• The aim of the project is to support student
  achievement by providing targeted and
  personalised support for assessment.
• It is hoped by the end of the Project students on
  at least 15 Sports Science/Biological Science
  courses will be able to access a suite of online
  self assessment exercises to improve their
  understanding of assessment and of course
  content.
• All of these resources will be linked through the
  myEssex student portal.

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SO, HOW IS SPRINTA GOING TO DO THIS?

• SPRInTA will design and develop online
  self-assessment for five types of assessment
  common to Sports Science students
• Multiple Choice Questions.
• Short answer and essay style practice
  examinations.
• Data Analysis Interpretation
• Practical Coursework (worksheets).
• Reporting in Scientific Paper Format.

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PROGRESS TO DATE

• Progress has been focused on MCQs.
• Pilot module Human Physiology (BS155).
• 600 Formative Multiple Choice Questions
  (MCQs)-using QMP.
• Split course materials into 4 sub modules-last
  teaching day.
• Tiered difficulty of questions.
• Summative Exam Online.
• Incentive-Summative Exam Questions from Formative
  Question Bank.
• Practice (mixed subtopic) exams 1 week before
  final exam.

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DEMO

• Demo link http//sernt22.essex.ac.uk/myessex

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STUDENT USE OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

• 92.5 of the students used the resource.
• Average- 45.5 48.6 assessments per student.
• Questions were accessed 6288 times with 4691
  completed assessments.
• Further analysis showed an uneven spread of
  students study time.

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Wk 1-subtopic 1 opened. Wk 3-subtopic 2
opened. Wk 5-subtopic 3 opened. Wk 7-subtopic 4
opened. Wk 7-Mock Exam opened.
Fig 1 Number of formative assessments completed
per week for the formative
assessments.
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Fig 2 Number of completed assessments by hour in
the twenty-four hours leading up to the
summative exam.
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SUMMATIVE EXAM RESULTS

• BS155 Average Summative Exam Result
• 2004 46.5 15.5
• 2005 71 19.7
• The 2005 results were significantly higher than
  the 2004 results (plt0.001 t-test).
• There was also a significant positive correlation
  between the number of formative assessments a
  student completed and their summative exam score
  (plt0.01).

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POST EXAM SURVEY

• An optional survey was made available after the
  summative exam.
• 44 students completed the survey.
• Some of the results are as follows

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Online practice MCQs should be made available for
all 1st year modules
The questions are great and helpful and should
definitely be made available for other modules
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Using the practice MCQs left me feeling prepared
for the final exam
The practice questions were a good indicator of
how hard the final exam questions were going to
be (very!!)
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The practice MCQs were a useful revision tool
Made revision far less tedious
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BEYOND THE PILOT

• Introducing the practice MCQs to six further 1st
  year modules.
• Dissemination.
• Working on the other four assessment types.
• Telephone Ext 4369
• E-mail sprinta_at_essex.ac.uk
• Website http//www.essex.ac.uk/sprinta

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Questions?