Online assessment: TellUs 2 tests

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• Online assessment TellUs 2 tests
• Presentation for International Business School
• Dr Diana Quinn
• Learning Connection

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Presentation Overview

• Introductions
• Online assessment
• TellUs2 tests
• Demonstration of the use of TellUs 2 and Excel
  for automatic marking and answer analysis
• Resources

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Introduction

• Diana Quinn, Magill Campus
• Liaison between Division of Eduction, Arts and
  Social Sciences and Flexible Learning Centre
• Professional development
• Work with academic staff to improve student
  learning outcomes
• Campus based team at City West Learning
  Connection
• Manager Learning Connection Murray Barr
• Staff assistance
• Professional Development Matthew Thomas
• Online adviser Barbara Brougham
• Student assistance
• Learning advisers Virginia Hussin, Marie
  Stevenson
• Disability advisers Stephen Manson
• Counsellors Terry Davenport
• International Student Advisers Michael Lim, Mary
  Ann Seow

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Online Assessment

• Quizzes, concealed answer short answer questions
• Formative
• Improve student learning outcomes by
• allowing students to privately evaluate their own
  understandings
• embedding feedback that can redirect learners as
  to how to correct their current understandings
  based on the type of error they make
• Tests
• Summative
• Improve student learning outcomes by
• Improving academic efficiency by allowing
  automation of the marking process
• Teacher able to review how individual students
  are performing
• Teacher able to review the effectiveness of each
  question, and use this to improve question design
  and identify areas of teaching requiring
  adjustment

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TellUs 2 tests

• TellUs 2 is a recently developed, flexible
  online evaluation tool that can be used as a test
  system where
• Questions and answer options are stored in a
  database under user-defined categories
• Tests are developed by selecting questions and
  assembling them in order
• Password protection to student groups and/or
  individual users can be applied
• Tests are published with a unique URL that can be
  distributed to students when testing required
• Answers are collated as graphs and can be
  downloaded as binary data readable by Excel
• Excel functionality can automatically mark
  responses
• Student answers to questions can be analysed to
  determine the difficulty of the question and its
  ability to discriminate between strong and weak
  students