The document provides an overview of a presentation on matching exercises. It discusses terminology, when to use matching exercises, advantages and disadvantages, and suggestions for constructing matching exercises. Sample activities are outlined where participants take quizzes, discuss advantages/limitations, review suggestions, create a short matching exercise applying the suggestions, review it using a checklist, take other group's exercises, and critique them. The goal is to learn about constructing and using matching exercises to assess different parts of Bloom's taxonomy.

1. Matching Exercise Jered Borup & Ben McMurry January 28, 2010

2. Presentation Overview Take matching quiz #1 (10 minutes) Review terminology associated with matching items (10 minutes) When to use matching items (10 minutes) Take matching quiz #2 (10 minutes) Advantages and disadvantages of matching exercises (10 minutes) Suggestions for Constructing Matching exercises (20 minutes) Quiz Creation Activity (20 minutes)

3. Sample Matching Exercise 10 minutes

4. Terminology Column A - Premises Column B - Responses Imperfect Match - Why is this important? Homogeneity Plausible responses Distractors

5. When to use matching exercises In small groups, make a list of possible relationships that may be tested with matching exercises. (2 minutes) Persons Dates Terms Rules Symbols Authors Foreign Words Machines Plants or Animals Objects Parts

6. When to use matching exercises Persons Dates Terms Rules Symbols Authors Foreign Words Machines Plants or Animals Objects Parts Achievements Historical Events Definitions Examples Concepts Titles of Books English Equivalents Uses Classification Names of Objects Functions

7. What part of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy do these assess?

8. Advantages & Limitations In small groups, make a list of advantages and one of limitations for matching exercises. (2 minutes) Advantages compact form possible to measure a large amount in a short time Ease of construction high degree of skill for quality items Limitations overuse focus on memorization poor-items rapidly constructed more irrelevant clues difficulty in finding homogenous materials less significant items are added to the test

9. Suggestions for Constructing Matching Exercises In small groups, review the section in the textbook regarding your assigned suggestion. (5 minutes) Be prepared to explain your suggestion to the class. (pgs. 189-191) Use only homogeneous material in a single matching exercise. Include an unequal number of responses and premises and instruct the students that response may be used one, more than once, or not at all. Keep the list of items to be matched brief and place the shorter responses on the right Arrange the list of responses in logical order, place words in alphabetical order, and numbers in sequence. Indicate in the directions the basis for matching the responses and premises. Place all the items for one matching exercise on the same page.

10. Application . . . . In your group, create a short matching exercise following the suggestions in the book. (5 minutes) In your group, review your quiz using the checklist on page 191. (2 minutes) Give your quiz to Jered (jeredborup@gmail.com) As a class, discuss the experience of making the matching exercise (5 minutes) In your group, take the quizes of your classmates (10 minutes) In your group, critique the matching exercises. (10 minutes) Discuss as a class what you have learned.

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