Reason #1: Data in the hands of teachers

Reason #1: Data in the hands of teachers

If you’re a Dearborn teacher, you’ve heard of it many times.  You’ve even been required to use it to complete some of your own professional development.  But if you’re like many, you haven’t found the time to invest in it or seen how the benefits could possibly outweigh the costs of learning something so complicated.  I’d…

Interpreting iLearn (Moodle) Quiz Data

Interpreting iLearn (Moodle) Quiz Data

One of the many advantages to using Moodle (iLearn) in addition to the flexibility of the Quiz module (the number attempts, shuffling questions, inserting variables into numerical questions) is the wealth of usable data you can glean from each quiz.  Bryant science teacher Kelley Murphy has begun analyzing this data to help students learn.  Here is an…

Data-Driven Instruction with Moodle

Data-Driven Instruction with Moodle

Over the past several years, the Biology Team at Edsel Ford High School (Lorraine O’Brien, David Mayoros, Christina West, Michael MacPherson, and this author) has been using iLearn, Dearborn’s Moodle Courseware, to assess student understanding and make instructional decisions based on the data. The team gives nearly all of their assessments on iLearn.  Giving quizzes on iLearn…

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