Craig's experience
"As the great Dylan Wiliam says, we need to start from where our students are, not where we want them to be. The only way to determine that in the midst of a lesson is to ask a good question, and get as many students as possible to respond. Diagnostic questions are ideal for this as there are a finite number of possible answers, you can collect responses quickly using ABCD cards, mini-whiteboards or fingers, and you learn something from each wrong answer."
How Eedi helps
For many years I have done this using diagnosticquestions.com. This involved copying the question and then pasting it into a PowerPoint to use in class. On Eedi, the process is a lot smoother.
Once you have found the question you want to use from our extensive collections, you can click on the question to view it in full-screen mode, which has been optimised for projecting in class.
This saves all the copying and pasting. But here is the best bit: with the click of the Show answers button, you can display the proportion of answers given for each choice by all the students who have ever answered this question.
Making the most of this feature
Ask students to predict what they think the most common wrong answer is
Ask students to explain why someone might choose the most common wrong answer
Ask students to write a new question that makes the most common wrong answer correct.
Putting it into action
Click on the "+ Set work button" within your navigation panel.
Click on the quiz you'd like to view (don't forget you can filter per collection, topic, etc.).
Now you can click on any question from that quiz to enlarge it and discuss with your class.
Once you're ready to go through the answers you can click on the "Show answers" button and click through each answer in the bar chart to reveal its misconception explanation.
