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GAMES.DOC
Play is a means of experiencing and practicing with an
acceptable risk. Success is satisfying and failure is not
fatal. Both are needed for fun. Games are an organized
means for group play. They need a few rules.
Successful students engage in play with the subject
matter. They think and do beyond the minimum required.
They make sense of what they are doing.
They apply what they know and can do outside the learn-
ing environment. Using higher levels of thinking, they make
up better tests than they face in the classroom.
This mental effort can now be shared by recording it in
the form of Instructional Question Files (IQF) for students
operating at lower levels of thinking. These files can also
be used in games (and can be shared, traded and sold).
Your own game (free enterprise)
Entrepreneurs create, trade and sell instructional
question files on paper, disk, and BBS as schools change
from forced-choice tests to free-choice assessment. Call
The Sanitarium, 816-582-8581, to up and down load files.
Triathlon and more
Three teams (or more) of one or more individuals each
create a test file over an agreed area with the same number
of questions. Each team takes the two (or more) tests they
did not create. Percent Score, Percent Right, Level of
Thinking, and Number of Questions Answered can be multiplied
to get a game score for each test ranging from zero to
1,000,000 with 50 questions.
Commissioner
A game commissioner is appointed to either provide the
questions or select them from submissions by each school,
team, group, or student. The test is then created by
selecting a set number of questions from each area of
interest. Illustrations, graphs, laboratory materials and
other things that will not fit into a question can be cited
in the question and provided separately to the contestants.
OLYMPIAD scores a paper test and ranks by individual, team,
and school (or other group).
Teacher
Question files with cited materials are submitted in
folders for authentic and performance assessments. Or on
disk to simplify selection and editing with EQUALIZER. If
used on paper tests, question quality can be determined by
the item analysis in TRAINER which scores both forced-choice
and free-choice by student selection. Free-choice reporting
yields a high quality low cost assessment.