Self-Paced Question Sets

The information in this topic supersedes some of the information in the topic 'Self-Paced Question Sets' in the ActivInspire 1.4 help.

Use this topic together with the following subtopics in the ActivInspire 1.4 help:

  • Self-Paced Question Sets > Running a Self-Paced Question session

  • Self-Paced Questions Sets > Evaluating results

 

Self-Paced Question Sets provide flexible learning and assessment. They help to focus the attention of the whole group, because everyone participates and every vote counts.

Unlike Prepared Questions, Self-Paced Question Sets are not displayed on the board during a voting session. At the start of a session, the first question is sent to each voting device. As soon as a learner sends a response, this is recorded and displayed, and the next question is automatically sent to their device. Each learner progresses at their own pace.

 

Self-Paced voting sessions provide an immediate insight into:

 

Setting up a Self-Paced Question Set

When you enter two or more questions in Question Manager, you create a Self-Paced Question Set.

Question Manager enables the color-coded Level functionality and displays a column to show the level for each question.

 

Constructing a list of questions

Use the following functions in the Popup Menu to construct a list of questions:

 

When you select a question you can double click the Question Type and Level fields to access Drop-Down Menus.

 

Setting up a voting session

This involves completing both Test and Feedback properties

To add questions to the list, click the button in the Menubar or right-click and select the button from the Popup Menu.

Drop-down menus let you change the question properties quickly.

Test Properties

Enter text to display on the board.

Set the timeout for the voting session.

Check the box Control Progress through levels to enable the options

Set how many correct answers must be returned to enable progress to the next level.

You can randomise the question delivery for the selected level.

Test Feedback Properties

Check the boxes and enter text to send to devices.

 

If you make changes to the questions, click Apply to update the changes.

If you make a mistake, click Discard changes.

Click Done to embed the Self-Paced Question Set into the selected page of the specified flipchart. You can embed the Question Set into any page of any open flipchart.

The Start/Stop Vote button is now enabled.

 

Running a Self-Paced Voting Session

A Self-Paced voting session works differently to a voting session for a single question.

 

 

When you start the vote, ActivInspire sends the first question to each voting device.

 

 

Also, the 'Self-Paced Assessment Results' window opens.

Students vote independently, at their own pace, and they have to answer the question before they receive the next one. The window shows the voting results from all students in real time.

 

Self-Paced Assessment Results

If a student answers incorrectly, this is indicated with a red cross.

If a student continues to answer incorrectly, this is indicated with a grey cross.

 

What do I need?

To use Self-Paced Question Sets in the classroom, you need the following:

For details of how to prepare your equipment for Self-Paced Question Sets, see Upgrading your system

 

Before you start

Before you start the Self-Paced Question session, do the following:

 

For more information about device registration, see the topic Using Learner Response Systems > Registering devices in the ActivInspire 1.4 help.

 

With Self-Paced Question Sets, the learners' attention is focussed on the display of their ActivExpression devices. If you are displaying incoming responses dynamically on the board, this may distract attention from the questions and adversely affect response times.

You may wish to run a trial session to accustom yourself and your learners to this way of voting.

 

Run the session

When everyone is ready to begin, do the following:

  1. Open the Voting Browser and select anonymous or named voting .

  2. Navigate to the flipchart page that contains the Self-Paced Question Set.

  3. Press Start/Stop Vote . The 'Self-Paced Assessment Results' window opens. It remains open during and after a voting session until you close it.

The following picture shows the two views you can display in the Self-Paced Assessment Results'  window.

'Response Timeline' view shows incoming responses on horizontal lines next to the device name or number, where each coloured block represents one question.

This is the default view.

In this example:

  • We chose anonymous voting and each device is identified only by its number.

  • No  responses have been received yet.

'Level Summaries' view shows for each student how many questions they answered correctly and incorrectly at each level, and their average response times.

In this example, we chose named voting and each device is identified by name.

Countdown showing the remaining time available to answer questions.

Pause button. Click to pause or resume a paused session.

Abort button. Click to permanently stop a voting session.

You are prompted to save any responses received so far.

Drop-down list for changing the view.

Paste current results into the flipchart.

All responses are displayed in the 'Self-Paced Assessment Results' window as soon as they are received. If you are using an interactive whiteboard, you can choose to display the window, or drag it our of sight of your learners.

 Do not close this window unless you want to abort the voting session.

At any time during a voting session you can do the following:

  • Pause a vote.

  • Abort a vote.

  • Change the view in the 'Self-Paced Assessment Results' window.

  • Paste the current results into the flipchart

  • Display more detailed information about a particular learner or question. For more information, see Evaluating results below.

When the timeout is reached, the session ends:

  • The Pause and Abort buttons in the 'Self-Paced Assessment Results' window are deactivated.

  • All participating devices display the opening screen.

 

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