Hi Francis
Two possibilities
1) Dan Robinson at UT Austin has an application that mimics IF-Ats that
he uses in a computer lab setup.....he presented it at the Vancouver TBL
conference http://tbl.apsc.ubc.ca/conferences/2007/#l
2) An instructor at UBCO has constructed an excel sheet that mimics the
IF-AT.....he sent it to me about 3 years ago....if I can find it I will
send it to you
Dan has indicated interest in open sourcing his application and we
probably could modify it for distance/online courses
Jim
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Subject: online equivalent to IFATs?
Hello out there,
My question requires a little pre-amble:
One important pedagogic benefit of IFATs scoring sheets is the instant
feedback. That is, erroneous choices are immediately identified and
correct choices are arrived at directly, thus reducing the potential
negative effects of "learning" wrong information from MC questions by
processing and choosing erroneous distractors. This point is made in the
following reference, and IFATs are identified explicitly as one way of
minimizing this effect:
"The memorial consequences of multiple-choice testing", Marsh, E.J.,
H.L. Roediger III, R.A. Bjork and E.L. Bjork, Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 2007, 14 (2), 194-199
My question to you all:
Does anyone know of an online resource out there that can perform the
same task instant feedback task as the IFAT forms? It should be easy -
simply generate feedback for all choices (right or wrong), and don't
permit progress through the test without finally making the correct
choice, with of course scoring that is consistent with IFAT paradigm (4
for correct first time, 2 for two tries, 1 for 3 tries, and 0 for 4 or
more tires.)
I would have thought that course management systems (BlackBoard for eg)
could do this - but as far as I can see, not yet.
Any input would be appreciated -
Francis.
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