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STEP 4: QUIZ YOUR STUDENTS & RECORD THE RESULTS USING THE PAPER QUIZ – MANUAL RECORDING METHOD
1. DECIDE ON A DELIVERY METHOD
Open the first quiz you made for this lesson from the shared folder you saved it in (the one with the “-Q1” at the end). Now decide how you will administer it. There are two choices: 1) Print the quizzes and hand them out, or; 2) Project the quiz and have students complete the quiz on blank sheets of paper. In both formats, you will be collecting the students responses for looking at later. This is why this method is called the “Paper Quiz” method. The students will be taking the quiz on paper and handing it in. Once you’ve decided on a delivery method, either print it or get it ready to project.
2. GIVE THE QUIZ
This is one of the most important steps to do right. Based on experience, it is best to formally set aside 2-3 minutes in class to have students take the quiz in silence. Have students clear their desks, if possible. The more formal it is, the better results you are going to get out of this program. This, more than any other element, has the strongest effect on how much everyone gets out of Fill. This stresses the importance of the quiz and lets students spend some focused time engaging in the task. Once the time is up, collect the responses.
3. RECORD THE RESULTS
After class, go through the student response papers and sort them into two piles: those that show mastery and those that don’t. Now let’s record this information in the system. Here’s how:
Within Fill, click the UNITS link in the upper left. Then click on the progress bar of the course the quiz is in. Then click on the progress bar of the unit the quiz is in. Then click on the Fill button of the lesson the quiz is in. Click Manage Quizzes. Then click Grade Manually for the quiz you would like to record the results for. Click on the progress bar for the class section that you want to enter the grades for. You will be taken to the quiz recording screen. There will be three columns: PASS, FAIL, and ABSENT/LEAVE RECORD UNCHANGE. At the bottom of each column, there is a select all button. If most students showed mastery, click select all on the PASS column. Then change the result to FAIL for those students who didn’t show mastery and change the result to ABSENT/LEAVE RECORD UNCHANGED for students who were absent. If most students failed to show mastery, click select all on the FAIL column and change individual students to PASS and ABSENT/LEAVE RECORD UNCHANGED as needed. Finally, click Grade. The results are now recorded and will be reflected in all relevant progress bars.
PROS AND CONS OF THE PAPER QUIZ – MANUAL RECORDING APPROACH
PROS
The manual recording is flexible because it allows for question types other than multiple choice. Manual recording also ensures that a teacher has looked at student work and has determined that mastery has been achieved or not, taking out any luck that may occur by students guessing right on a multiple choice question.
CONS
Because you don’t create a digital version of the quiz in our system, students, parents, and teachers cannot see the quiz in the system later to help them clarify what the quiz was assessing, so focused studying in preparation for a retake will not be as effective or motivating.
Recording results manually takes more time than having the quizzes automatically scored like they would be with digital multiple choice questions in our system.