Difference between adaptive & interactive

Difference between adaptive & interactive

Marco Del Percio -
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Hi,

I'm using Moodle 2.5.2 and I'm new to Moodle. I have read the documentation and I tried to setup a quiz (just a couple of multichoice questions) both in Adaptive and Interavtive mode.

I've read the docs here http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Question_behaviours

however I don't get the real difference between Adaptive & Interactive. I mean the only noticeable differences are that:

- In Interactive before retrying there's a "Try again button" whereas in Adaptive you can just amend the answer and hit the "Check" button again

- In Adaptive mode I'm unable to see the Hints after a wrong answer

- In Interactive mode I can retry to give a different answer only a limited number of times whereas in Adaptive I can retry unlimited times

 

Is it normal that in Adaptive mode I am unable to see the Hints? (I can only see the specific feedbacks but not the hints)

On the official docs it says that "The question can adapt itself to the student's answer" but I am honestly missing how???

Thanks

 

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回复Marco Del Percio

Re: Difference between adaptive & interactive

Tim Hunt -
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You are correct about the differences between these two behaviours.

It has been suggested before that we display hints in adaptive behaviour, but no-one has implemented that yet.

Where does it say "The question can adapt itself to the student's answer"? That sounds wrong to me, and should probably be corrected.

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回复Tim Hunt

Re: Difference between adaptive & interactive

Marco Del Percio -

I'm sorry but if you're telling me that "but no-one has implemented that yet" then it means that Adaptive mode is working without hints cause it was designed like that? Correct?

If yes then there's another mistake in the docs cause as you can see in the description for Adaptive it says clearly:

"...for example by giving some hints before asking the student to try again..."

This is not Adaptive, this rather reflects the behaviour of Interactive.

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回复Marco Del Percio

Re: Difference between adaptive & interactive

Mary Cooch -
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Thanks for your comments Marco. I have removed the sentence about hints in adaptive behaviour. And just to point out - as you say you are using Moodle 2.5, the correct version of documentation for you is http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Quiz_settings

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回复Mary Cooch

Re: Difference between adaptive & interactive

Marcus Green -
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I thought it might be nice to have a "pre-fill" option for interactive hints, e.g. Have another go, One last try......

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回复Marco Del Percio

Re: Difference between adaptive & interactive

Tim Hunt -
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It does not mean that Adaptive was designed like that.

The way adaptive mode works was first designed by Gustav Delius et al in 2005. (http://docs.moodle.org/dev/History_of_the_Moodle_quiz_and_question_bank)

Interactive behaviour was added to Moodle in 2010, though how it works was designed at the OU before that. It just took a while to get the code into a shape to add to the main Moodle release. (And really the design comes from OpenMark, which came from .... I have seen a screen grab of an OU system form 197x where students got three tries with feedback after each try.)

When Interactive behaviour, and hints were added to Moodle, then adding hints to Adaptive mode was recognised as a possibility, but there was not time to do it. Since then, no-one has had the necessary combination of time, inclination and skills to do it. That is all.

I am sure there is an issue in the tracker for doing this, but I can't find it.

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Re: Difference between adaptive & interactive

Joseph Rézeau -
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Marco "Is it normal that in Adaptive mode I am unable to see the Hints? (I can only see the specific feedbacks but not the hints)"

Well, one might say that a well-constructed specific feedback message should always contain a kind of hint.

When I used to teach my future language-teaching students at university, I would tell them that there are 2 kinds of specific feedback messages, according to whether the student's answer is correct or incorrect.

For a correct student answer, specific feedback should consist of a) acknowledgement that the answer is indeed correct and b) a reinforcement message, saying why the answer is correct. That second part of the feedback is important for the cases where the student selected or gave a correct answer "at random".

For an incorrect student answer, specific feedback should also consist of 2 parts. First an indication that the answer is incorrect (but, as with the correct answer, that can be automated) and b) a hint to guide the student towards the correct answer.

Of course, this view of feedback is quite far from the automated "Well-done" and "Wrong, try again" messages which I maintain, have no or very little pedagogic value. The writing of specific feedback messages is quite time-consuming, but it is an integral part of a teacher's job (as is the writing of carefully-thought questions and quizzes).

Joseph

PS.- The current naming of "Adaptive" and "Interactive" question behaviours is partly misleading, but, as explained by Tim, is due to historical reasons.

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