an iQuiz can an interactive web page
Goals
For the learner to have an opportunity to . . .
- Assess the merits of a stand-alone interactive quiz
- Identify the levels of thinking in iQuiz questions
- Construct questions of various levels from a passage of choice
- Use a plain text editor to modify an iQuiz into their own
- Evaluate why quizzes have general appeal
Content
Poetry 102 is an iQuiz in a single, self-contained document.
- The iQuiz presents two works of short verse.
- The related comprehension questions work their way up the ladder of the cognitive domain. There is little recall or rote memory.
- They start with vocabulary, then asking about the author’s purpose, and tone or attitude in the verse.
- The questions require making a comparison or analogy and call upon skills in application, synthesis, and assessment.
The iQuiz is a single document.
- The story, graphic, code, and stylesheet are embedded in the document: Poetry_102.html. As a web page, it will run in any browser.
- The Poetry_102.html document contains comments to help make an iQuiz of your own.
Since the document is self-contained, it includes some complicated parts. The complicated bits can, for the most part, be ignored.
- The CSS, Javascript, and SVG code can be confusing, but you don’t have to change the CSS and Javascript.
- For a graphic in .svg format, open it with your plain text editor and copy the code, which describes shapes and colours. Paste it into your iQuiz where you want it to appear.
Edit or write your iQuiz using Poetry 102 as a template.
- Open Poetry_102.html in a plain text editor, such as BBEdit (Mac OS) or Notepad++ (Windows). Don’t use a word processor.
- Make changes and save it as an iQuiz of your own.
- If you have Poetry_102.html open in a browser and in a text editor at the same time, when you save changes in the text editor, the browser view will update to show the changes.
In making an iQuiz, draw upon the different levels of higher-level thinking.
- Start with the meaning of a word or phrase for the reader to figure out from its use in context. This calls for drawing a conclusion, which is the Understand (level 2) of thinking. Making a comparison or analogy is another example of understanding.
- Ask how a part of the passage might be used in everyday experience. This is the third level: Apply.
- Questions that require comparing, contrasting, or classifying use level 4: Analysis.
- Asking for a best title or summary or moral of the story require the reader to abstract from elements or events in the story to a whole. This is level 5 thinking: Synthesis.
- Asking the reader to assess what comes next, or what would have been better, or who could use the information is to ask level 6 questions: Evaluation.
What do you Think?
- Asking the reader to construct an iQuiz, such as you (might) have been doing, is level 7 thinking: Creation. Does a higher level include all the levels below it, or is one level distinct from the other levels?
- An iQuiz is still a quiz, yet people enjoy them. In fact, having a quiz on a web site improves interest in the site. Why is that?
