Helping technophobic teachers ease the burden of marking with easy-to-use online quizzes
Paul Chi Hong LIP
Abstract
A number of studies have shown that teacher stress was due to teachers spending long hours in marking their students’ work such as quizzes and examination papers from large class sizes. With this problem in mind, a new web 2.0 technology has emerged, Quiz Center supported by DiscoverySchool.com which can help technophobic teachers make a free and easy-to-use online quiz. Online quizzes can be automatically marked by a script or managed by a server. In this paper, the following sections were addressed:1) the need for using online quizzes to ease the burden of teachers:2) the definitions of different types of online quizzes and the advantages and reasons for using them;3) the reasons for using Quiz Center from DiscoverySchool.com; 4) a sharing of how I made an online multiple-choice email quiz with Quiz Center from the perspective of a technophobic teacher; and 5) a discussion on the limitations, recommendations and implications for using online quizzes.
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