Hot Potatoes test

Hot Potatoes test

In this blog post I present to you 3 sections of a test. The test was designed by other two classmates and me and the items are based around three reading materials that our learning evaluation’s teacher gave us in the class and these are:

1. Homework, written by Bhaswati Ghosh.

2. Concept Mapping, written by Tricia Smith, Ed. D.

3. Evaluation and Grading, written by Peter Elbow and is a passage from his book "Everyone can write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing"

The test was made with a software called “Hot Potatoes” and it allows you to create different kinds of activities you can use in tests. Some of the kinds of exercises you can create with Hot Potatoes are:

1. Fill-in-the-blank activities

2. Cross words

3. Put in order a sentence

4. Matching elements

5. Multiple-choice questions

6. Short-answer questions.

Specifications

The test has three sections and there are 10 items per section. Each section concerns a different topic. During the first section, you need to match the term with the corresponding definition and it´s about types of concept maps. The second section is a true-or-false activity and you must read the statements and determine if they are true or if they are false according to the reading about homework. And last but not least, the final activity is a fill-in-the-gap exercise and it based on the reading about evaluation and grading.

Here are the links to answer each section:

Matching elements- Concept Mapping

HTM file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5DWQbOLcAxxUmV2dG01ajB4VEU

Hot Potatoes file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5DWQbOLcAxxbGs4elQxOHBiS3M

True or false- Homework

HTM file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5DWQbOLcAxxbGQ4U2E0bGVkQ0U

Hot Potatoes file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5DWQbOLcAxxajQ3WFBocVZITW8

Fill in the gaps- Evaluation and grading 

HTM file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5DWQbOLcAxxby0weE4xNk9yX00

Hot Potatoes file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5DWQbOLcAxxUlJ5QnNQd3FiWkk

Lastly, the experience of designing the test provided me with a bigger understanding of what it implies and how much time you take doing it. Also Hot Potatoes is a very useful tool to make test and it’s easy to use.