ICT Applications for Language Assessment (Quiz Maker)

Name              : Daffa Rafif

NIM                : 20201111046

Subject           : ICT in ELT

 

Quiz Maker (Assessment Application)

 

·         Relevance

Quiz Maker lets us create an interactive quizzes for academic or learning purposes. It's offers a wide range of features for quiz creation. This application is beneficial for teaching English through online because teacher can give their students assignment or homework through Quiz Maker more easily.

·         Feedback

Teachers can make a questions in the form of multiple choice, text, drop lists, and others. Teacher can provide an explanation for each answer option so that students can evaluate their mistakes by themselves if they chooses the wrong answer.

·         Thinking Skill

The thinking ability that will be obtained by students depends on the teacher who made the questions, because this application frees the teacher to make questions according to the learning objectives that he designed. For example, if the teacher wants his students to learn about problem solving and explanation skills, the teacher can make a questions in the form of text or description.

·         Ease of Use

This application is very easy to access for everyone including students because they only need to open the link that has been given by teacher, after that they will join and be able to answer the questions immediately.

·         Engagement

Student is highly motivated to use Quiz Maker rather than the other application because its relatively easy to access and they can see their score instantly after they finishes the task.

·         Sharing

There is no sharing feature so the only person who know all of the students answer it's just the question maker which is teacher.

·         Accessibility & Cost

Quiz Maker is a free application that can be used without any subscription, but there is limitations such as you only able to create 10 questions, the maximum response is only 25, and there are ads that might be little bit annoying.

·         How to Use/Apply it in ELT

You can prepare a quiz with either the exam mode for evaluation or the challenge mode for fun. You can assign a topic to the quiz and define the level of knowledge to prepare effective quizzes. You can also customize the scoring policy, such as awarding points for each correct answer.

·         The Impact of this Application in ELT

The impact of Quiz Maker for ELT is in order to provide a simple and easy place to assess your students through different kinds of form.

·         The Advantage

The reason why Quiz Maker is the best quiz application because it can lets you set a time limit for the quiz and the individual questions, you can hide the editing option for the questions to protect the test's integrity. You can also import some questions from the text file to save your time. Besides that, Quiz Maker show the correct answer after each question which very useful for students. It also give students “result” as a percentage of correct answers. Thus they get their feedback while their doubts are still fresh on their minds.

·         The Limitation

Sometimes ads or banners with inappropriate content is pop out while you open the application. In the other hand, you also have to take the time to conduct a proper screening to make sure the quizzes and links are work properly.

·         Language Skills or Components

    Quiz applications such as Quiz Maker are useful for sharpening and restoring students’ memory of the previous materials such as grammar and vocabulary because this method is relate with the previous material that has been taught. Therefore, teachers use this application just to measure the level of understanding their students at the end of the learning process.