Exploring Evaluation Tools

Nurse educators utilize assessment and evaluation tools to determine the effectiveness of a program and the performance of a student. Educators should be up to date on the latest evaluation tools, and learn to use them effectively to assess student understanding of a given topic. Thereafter, the feedback received from the evaluation tools can be used to further help students and/or alter the educator's teaching methods. I have explored a few assessment tools, which I will discuss in this blog.

ClassMaker

ClassMaker is a professional web-based testing service. This customizable online test maker can be used for business, training, and educational assessment. It is free to register, fairly easy-to-use, and instantly grades tests and quizzes for you. You can also create custom certificates for students. In addition, you can upload files, images, videos, and external websites when creating your test. Here is an example of an image incorporated into a test:

ClassMaker works well with PCs, iPads, iPhones, and other Smart devices. Furthermore, it allows you to view a comprehensive range of statistics for each test, including test scores from highest to lowest or test completion time from fastest to slowest.

In the future, I believe I will utilize this site to create and distribute online quizzes. Here is the link to create your own ClassMaker test/quiz: ClassMaker. Nonetheless, here is a video to learn more about ClassMaker:

Audience Response Systems (Turning Point)

Turning Point is an Audience Response System (ARS) or clicker system that can be used for polling and recording of quizzes into internet grading. It can be used for either the academic or healthcare learning setting. The instructor receives free access and hardware, and the students register and pay a rental fee for their clickers. Moreover, educators can deliver self-paced summative assessments and poll learners from any PC or Mac. Turning Point also includes data collection systems that securely transfers digital data for various assessments and evaluations. In addition, Turning Point provides a convenient, online purchase store made available for students called Student Store . Overall, ARS connects learners with their instructors and immediately assesses the learners understanding of course material compared to other learners. I can see myself utilizing this system in the future. 

QuizStar

QuizStar is a free web-based quiz maker that enables instructors to create, administer, and automatically grade quizzes online. I have found this site to be user-friendly. With QuizStar, an instructor can manage classes and quizzes, attach multimedia files (text, audio, video, and images) to questions, make quizzes in multiple languages, and have multiple classes with their own quizzes. QuizStar makes it easy for instructors to create quizzes and efficiently organize results.

Students must register or the instructor registers them by their email addresses. The quizzes are assigned through the email addresses, and thereafter, alerts can be sent to remind students when quizzes open and close. I plan to definitely use QuizStar to create and give online quizzes to my students.

Here is a video that provides a basic introduction to QuizStar and the features it offers to educators: