Going Digital with Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

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Session 2: MCQs 2 - Using Quizlet

This session will look at getting started with multiple-choice questions and using them for retrieval practice or for consolidation. It will also focus on how to move these activities quickly and easily to an online platform. The session will explore the web-based resource Quizlet.

Please watch the following video presentation, which will take you through Session 2:

Session 2 Resources

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MCQ Session 2 Quizlet.pdf

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MCQs 2 Transcript vf - Copy.docx

In Slide 10 of Multiple Choice Questions, Session 1, you were provided with a link to an MS Form, created for your convenience. This has been designed as a “shifting balances” personal reflection tool and we recommend that you complete it at regular intervals to allow you to monitor your own progress. It has been included in Slide 2 of Multiple Choice Questions, Session 2 as a reminder to complete this baseline activity if you have not already done so. You can access the tool via the QR code within the presentation or by clicking the link within this document.

Shifting Balances.pdf

In Slide 22 of Multiple Choice Questions, Session 2, an MS Form is included as a QR code, for your convenience, alternatively please use the link included in this document and follow the instructions to make this a personal self-evaluation tool for collating Pupil Voice about your Quizlet activities:

Quizlet Pupil Voice.pdf
Quizlet Pupil Voice - Modern Languages & EAL.pdf

In Slides 10 - 18 of Multiple Choice Questions, Session 2, the following Videos are included. The clips below are short clips, which may be useful to help support you as you begin to use Quizlet. Please click on these video clips thumbnails to watch the clips:

How to....

create an account:

create and share a set :

duplicate, edit and customise a set:

Additional information, support and ideas …

Data, learner experience & feedback:

GCSE Resource Centre:

Ideas for capitalising:

In Slide 25 the following Videos and Support Guides are referred to. The clips included below are short clips, which may be useful to help support you as you begin to use Quizlet. Please click on these video clips thumbnails to watch the clips or alternatively click on the step-by-step guides:

Quizlet - Teachers Getting Started.pdf
Quizlet - Helping students sign up.pdf
Remote Learning and Quizlet Live.pdf

Please use the links provided to access these additional materials:

In Slide 20, 21 and 24 Multiple Choice Questions, Session 2 a number of reading materials are signposted. Please find some of them below:

Consulting Pupils - first hand evidence.pdf
EEF_Digital_Technology_Guidance_Report.pdf
EEF_Digital_Technology_Summary_of_Recommendations.pdf
EEF_Metacognition_and_self-regulated_learning.pdf
EEF Summary_of_recommendations_poster.pdf
LEARNING LEADERS.pdf
GTCNI - Teaching, the Reflective Profession.pdf

Alister Hamill - Effective design and use of google quizzes

Case Study

To explore further the idea of using online quizzes for retrieval practice and consolidation, listen to Alistair Hamill, Lurgan College. Alistair Hamill talks to Róisín McCreesh about how he used multiple-choice questions, facilitated via Google Forms, during lockdown, for retrieval practice and to promote pupil engagement.

To access the recording please click on the Lurgan College school crest.