![]() In this virtual environment, teaching resources of different characteristics can be included, such as links to web pages, chats, forums, messages, and other specific documents like notes, tutorials and question relationships elaborated by the teacher. Moodle platform is a virtual learning environment that offers very attractive functionalities from the pedagogical point of view by promoting the philosophy of constructivist social education, and where the subjects can be accommodated with easy handling, at the editing and user level by teachers and students, respectively. as a proposal for European convergence, given that it allows the student’s noncontact work hours to be completed with virtual activities, as established in the new university teaching guides for the convergence of the European Space for Higher Education. ![]() In particular, b-learning has been applied in subjects from different areas of knowledge such as education sciences, natural sciences, economics, engineering, etc. Both methodologies profit from the presence of the teacher as a transmitter of knowledge and guide of educational activities and from the communication technology that facilitates independent and collaborative learning. Blended-learning, b-learning, combines face-to-face lessons in the classroom, required for any subject in university study plans, and virtual training teaching activities through learning platforms, while the gamification techniques try to create similar experiences to those experienced when playing games in order to motivate and engage users. Moodle quizzes turn out to be a reliable strategy for learning of contents in scientific matter, with a high participation in the knowledge tests, with good marks in the average score and a greater number of pass degrees in the Ordinary Calls.ĭifferent teaching methodologies integrate the technological devices in the educational environment such as the blended-learning and gamification. The statistic results indicate that TBQs are more discriminative than BQs and could be used as an assessment tool, while BQs could be only useful as formative activity. Moreover, the effect of this educational activity, developed during the last six academic years from 2014 to 2020, just before of the pandemic situation, is evaluated considering the scores of the students in the Ordinary Calls of exams and comparing them with previous courses taught with a traditional education based on master classes. This allows us to discern which type of quiz has an enough quality to use it as an assessment tool. The effect of the type of quiz on the student scores is analyzed according to statistical and psychometric data such as the degree of participation, the facility index and the discrimination index of each item, and the average score, calculated according to the classical test theory. BQ has true/false items, while TBQ has randomly mixed items (multiple choice, numerical and matching). Two types of quiz designed with different item types and different settings, called basic quiz (BQ) and thematic block quiz (TBQ), were elaborated making use of a question bank with more than 450 items. ![]() ![]() The use of Moodle quizzes as a continuous assessment and an integral part of the educational methodology in higher education has been analyzed in a case study of physical chemistry subject. ![]()
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