The fill in the blank question style is awesome! For the complex terms I cover in class the goal is to build familiarity with large set of vocabulary and how terms are related. One challenge has been that each blank has to have its own set of distractors ( covered in another post -- see below). That can lead to a pretty big word bank. The more significant challenge is that if the correct answer for one blank it the distractor for another blank the result is unpredictable. The grading system see identical answers as different.
Would it be a crazy idea to solve this by simply having the word bank presentation remove duplicates? Grading would be done by matching just as is done for open entry, so the bug below would go away. 🙂 This approach would avoid changes to the question design system.
I'd truly appreciate consideration of this approach. It is very helpful to have a singe question that lets students pick words from a bank in order to demonstrate how terms are related to one another. It is far better than simple multiple choice. In some cases ordering and categorization are good solutions, however, the Fill-in-the-blank with distractors stye is best for many cases.
Thank you
- Paul
Related post: This post was pretty close. It dealt more with the big word bank. The difference is looking for a way to avoid duplicates and conflicts in the word bank.
