Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for Diagnostic Testing
Design Pattern Tags : Active learning, Early assessment, Mobile learning, Personalisation
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for Diagnostic Testing December 2015
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for Diagnostic Testing measures student understanding of concepts in a course. It allows for the identification of strengths, weaknesses, and misconceptions in student knowledge and skill.
Rationale Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for Diagnostic Testing identifies and gauges student knowledge and skill.
Learners/Context Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for Diagnostic is deployed to identify and gauge student learning differences. The results can be related to customising student learning and modifying learning activities, to improve student understanding of concepts. Diagnostic testing is often best carried out at the beginning of a course or before phase changes or a switch to new content in order to allow time for remedial actions to be carried out. The testing can also be used as a diagnostic tool to verify student understanding during lectures.
Alignment Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Workshop Review Questions gives students the opportunity to review the understanding of their learning.
Instructions/Processes Prior Workshop
Decide what aspects of the workshop process, content and concepts are to be reviewed or evaluated.
Develop a pool of questions.
Decide which questions will be included in the test with appropriate feedback and answers to support student learning.
For details on how to create each mobile question type refer to The Blackboard Faculty Guide to Mobile Tests (refer to Resources/technology).
Create a mobile compatible test in Blackboard by following the steps outlined in Blackboard Learn to create tests (refer to Resources/technology).
Uncheck the option ‘Include this Test in the Grade Centre score calculations’ to designate the test as formative (ungraded).
Choose whether or not the results are completely hidden from instructors by toggling the checkbox ‘Hide results for this test completely from the instructor and the grade centre’. You may wish to hide the results for the sake of student anonymity.
In the Blackboard Learn course, find the “Create Assessment” drop-down and select Mobile Compatible Test.
Decide when to launch the test.
In the test setting, fill in the dialog boxes and save the settings.
At the End of the Workshop
Students answer 2 questions towards the end of the workshop:
What I learned.
What I found most interesting or unexpected.
On completion of the workshop, they complete the following:
Clicker – students use mobile test questions and vote, rate and/or evaluate aspects of the workshop session.
Captions - students are given 3 photos, in groups students discuss and propose captions to describe key concepts of the workshop.
Conditions/Critical Success Factors Knowledge of Blackboard Learn.
Resources/ Technology Related Patterns
