Quiz Feature Research Articles

AP-S turnstile: The annual quiz

This is the time of the year when I flip through the accumulated items that I have f led away from various print and online sources for possible use in my columns. This short quiz features some of those interesting tidbits. I hope you find the quiz both fun and instructive. The answers appear else where in this issue.

Ask A Biologist: Bringing Science to the Public

Ask A Biologist: Bringing Science to the Public

Electronic Assessment and Self-Paced Learning on the Web Using a Multiple-Choice Quiz Generator

This paper describes the work of an advanced first-year student in the Department of Computer Science, Monash University, who developed a Web-based multiple-choice quiz. It highlights the unique quiz features, and its use by students and staff. The paper describes how the quiz was incorporated into the first-year computer programming unit, which is based on the C programming language, and presents a conduit of attitudes useful to those who are planning to use the Web as a resource for educational assessment. It also describes some aspects of introduction of the quiz into engineering and Java.