Writing Quizzes for the World Wide Web
A workshop by Charles Kelly, Larry Kelly, Letty Bradley and Donna Tatsuki
For Those Who Arrive Early
- If you are in the room early waiting for the workshop to begin, go ahead and get started if you like.
- Try a couple of short sample quizzes. Remember to make a few mistakes, so you can see what happens when students make mistakes.
- Read How to Write Data for a JavaScript Quiz
- If you think you can figure out what to do on your own, you may begin to write a quiz. We don't mind as long as you are quiet and the rest of the participants can hear our presentation.
What We Plan to Do
- We will teach you how to write quizzes for the Web, give a few quick suggestions on how to write an effective quiz and then give you time to write some quizzes as we walk around the room and give individual help as needed.
About the Quizzes That You Will Write
- The quizzes you write today can be submitted to the Internet TESL Journal's quiz project and be
immediately available for your students and students worldwide.
- Depending on which quiz format you choose, the quizzes can be uploaded to your own web server.
However, by submitting the quiz to the Internet TESL Journal, you will be providing a service to more students.
You can always add a direct link to your own quiz from your personal web page.
Outline of the Workshop
- How to Write a Quiz for Interactive JavaScript Quizzes for ESL Students.
- How to Write a Quiz for Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students.
- The rest of the time, you will write one or more quizzes while we offer help if you need it.
Our Hope
- We hope that you will produce one or more quizzes today and submit them to the Internet TESL Journal's quiz project.
- We hope that after learning how to write quizzes for the web, that you will write more quizzes later and email them to the Internet TESL Journal.
For Further Study
Email the Quiz Data to The Internet TESL Journal
Links to Raw Materials
If you need some word lists to help you get ideas for writing a quiz, try these links.
Or try some of these links, listed roughly in order of potential usefulness.
- Brett Reynolds' Collection of Word Lists
- Top 100 Words, 5,000 Words, General Service List, Basic Foods, Verbs, ...
- Faculty Vocab Lists (Christopher Glick)
- Faculty-specific lists of English words glossed in Japanese with sample sentence
- Nick Miller's EFL/ESL Resource Material - Street & Map Terms (Nicholas E. Miller)
- A list of words with definitions.
- College Slang Top 20 - 1997 (Judi Sanders)
- A list of words containing: 'cool', 'kick it', 'dope', and so on.
- College Slang Top 20 -- 1998 (Judi Sanders)
- A list of words containing 'dude', 'chill out', 'kick it', 'grub on' and so on.
- Vocabulary General Service List
- 2,284 words, by John Bauman and Brent Culligan in early 1995
- The Word Frequency Lists (Rob Waring)
- 1,000 most common words, 2,000 most common words, etc.
- English Vocabulary Lists (Xah Lee)
- 3200+ words sorted into various lists: SAT words, GRE words, Writer's Words, ...
Temporary Link
Quizzes created today during this workshop will be uploaded to...
This way you can see how they work. However, this will only be a temporary home for the quizzes. We will move them to a more appropriate location.