After reading this article, I concluded that I
really do not like to use technology, and more specifically computers to take
quizzes and evaluations. As students I have had the chance to take several
quizzes online, and I still prefer the old methods because of many reasons.
First, I do not like to trust my grade to a
computer, I am aware that there are software’s that had been specially designed
for those tasks, but still I believe they are not 100% reliable. Second, when
students take online quizzes from their home, teachers cannot be sure that they
are not cheating; students might feel tempted to open a new tab and look for
the answer to a question they do not know. Finally, there are many things that
could go wrong while taking an exam; the internet connection might fail, for
example. Because of all this reasons I will always prefer paper and pencil when
it comes to take quizzes.
I know that
as teacher, I will have to accept that in a future all quizzes could be taken
in computer. But, we have to remember that, like me, not all students could
feel comfortable taking evaluations in computers, and is our responsibility
look for solutions that can befits everybody.
Hello Monica. I was so excited to read your comment and indeed it really pleased me. I would say that I agree with some of your ideas about taking online tests, but also I disagree with some of them. for example, I liked when you said “teachers cannot be sure that students are not cheating during a test” of course cheating is one of the worst problem that affect this new way to implement evaluation; however, an easy and effective alternative is to stablish an adequate amount of time to each of the item according to it difficulty. It will reduce the cheating possibilities because students will have to deal with their own knowledge, instead of surfing on the internet to get the answers of the exam. On the other hand, I do believe in the effectiveness of online grading due to the error range of it is less than 10% that means only a reduce group of people will have the necessary knowledge to jeopardy the software. I do not say that online grading may not have a malfunction, but its efficient is admirable without mentioning that result is provided almost immediately (If it is set like that). I enjoyed reading your comment, keep writing like this.
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