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Universidad de Salamanca
2016
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- One Picture or a Thousand Words? Influence of Question Length and Illustration Support on the Success and Skip Rates on Online Tests Ernest Redondo Joaquim Regot David Fonseca Francesc Valls Lluís Giménez Educación Pre Online Test Image Support University Education Learning Analytics The growing popularity of automatically graded online tests, either as an evaluation or self-assessment tool in online or blended education, demands a review of how these questions are designed and delivered to their intended audience. This paper analyzes the results of over 20,000 pre- university mock online quizzes designed to train the students for the Spanish university admission test (known as “Pruebas de Acceso a la Universidad” or “Selectividad”) in the technical drawing subject, corresponding to the June and September intakes of 2009 and 2015. The influence of two key aspects on the questions success and skip rates is assessed: (a) the presence or absence of illustration support and (b) the length of the question as a pro xy of reading comprehension difficulty. The results suppor t that the presence of an accompanying illustration in the questions result in fewer skipped questions and mode successful answers, while the length of the question has the opposite effect. The performance difference in the 6-year span is also discussed, showing a slight decline over time in the pass rates while the skip rates remain stable. When comparing both two intakes, corresponding to different academic profiles of students that passed the June exam and those who did not, the success ratio is unsurprisingly lower for the students in the second intake. These findings should help improving the design of online quizzes, including more visual content and/or rephrasing the questions to be more concise, to fit the requir ements of students educated in a more visual environment of multimedia technologies. 2016 artículo científico 2444-8729 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=535554764007 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5355 Education in the Knowledge Society application/pdf Universidad de Salamanca Education in the Knowledge Society (España) Num.4 Vol.17