A Guide to Feedback

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A Guide to Feedback
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What is feedback?

• A response that helps to evaluate performance
• Used in Quizzes
• Instant
• After answering a MCQ
• Summary
• Overview of total performance

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Instant Feedback

• Answer Based

• Review Page

• Are you Right or Wrong?
• Guidance on how many attempts are left
• Offer a tip?

• Explanation of the question/answer
• Given no-matter if the student was right or wrong
• Can allow a student to learn from mistakes
• Important to understand why you were right/wrong

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Summary Feedback
10 / 10

• Evaluates performance of whole activity
• Alerts user to their strengths / weaknesses
• Can offer advice on additional materials that may
  be useful

7 / 10
3 / 10
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What is Good Feeback?

• Good Feedback

• Bad Feedback

• Is meaningful
• Well done, Edinburgh is the Capital of Scotland
• Thats incorrect, Aberdeen is the Oil Capital
  of Scotland
• Is useful whether the student is right or wrong
• Provides support
• Justifies why the answer is correct

• Is not meaningful
• Correct / Incorrect
• 1/5 Correct
• Just gives away the answer

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Creating Feedback in Articulate Quizmaker

• Per Question
• Each question type is slightly different
• Feedback Box
• Correct
• Incorrect
• Score
• Options
• Score
• Attempts
• More... (advanced)
• Audio
• Branching

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Creating Feedback in Articulate Quizmaker

• After a Question
• Create a blank page
• Fill in the form for content
• or
• Create content justlike a PowerPoint Slide

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Creating Feedback in Articulate Quizmaker

• End of the Quiz (Summary)
• Show the Result
• Give some comments
• Congratulations
• Support
• Suggestions for additional material

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Summary

• Make sure the feedback is meanignful
• Imagine you are the student, what information
  would you want
• Is important no matter if answer is Right or
  Wrong
• Feedback is there to help the student find out
  their strengths and weaknesses in the subject