Thanks, Charles.
I can certainly see the possibility of many interesting use cases there. True or false questions would be an interesting game for our natural-language renderers to play, for example. Given an inferred statement supposed to be true, negate it. Test-setters might be expected to correct errors of fact or expression, but that's up to them. It would be interesting to monitor which statements they preferred to choose as True and which as False, in any event.
Questions of the form: "choose the best answer from the following" could also be a win-win if our renderers face difficulties selecting or expressing some combination of facts.
Then there is the grading of information. Questions chosen for more basic tests might be supposed to be more generally relevant than those chosen for more advanced tests, which might feed back into the emphasis in the general Wikipedia article (now complete with a slider bar for the reader's current and/or target level of understanding, as well as competence in the language).
And finally, renderer, given the pedagogue's valuable input into what is an appropriate statement of fact here, please turn it into questions in many languages!
Loving it...
Thank you again, Charles
Best regards,
Al.
Today's Topics:
1. Re: How to store wikitext along the structured content?
(Grounder UK)
2. Re: Comprehension questions (Charles Matthews)
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From: Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com>
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I have been interested in edtech since 2012, when I did some work on Moodle for Wikimedia UK. The AW project has, for me, an obvious place for some educational development, and I'm dropping in the main lines of my thinking with this posting.
Firstly, it is a standard form of educational material to supply some material to read, or watch, and then some questions to answer. That can either be as a test, or as knowledge review/self-test. If AW is going to supply base code for articles - or let's say an article section - then questions could be appended in related code, and rendered together with it. For example the cloze (missing word) type of test would seem relatively easy to implement.
Granted that this sort of application of AW, in fully multilingual form, is not so hard to envisage, what needs to be said at the current stage of prototyping? A few points:
(1) There is actually no de facto standard for multiple choice questions. AW could address this gap in the market.
(2) My experience with Moodle (which is a long story) suggests to me the basic architectural point that a question database should be the hub of an edtech system.
(3) Instructional design, which is a bit more than just having an edtech content management system, is not so hard to enable. The function wiki could enable it without a big stretch, I'd think.
I don't want to write a manifesto here, just yet. On point (1) there is Moodle XML, but it is clearly too rigid and limited. Magnus Manske at http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=446 has shown what Wikibase can do in this area, with a tool Comprende! - the overlap with the subject of this posting is no coincidence.
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