Constructed Response

— Constructed Response

Assessments powered by Technology-Enhanced Items (TEIs).

Interactive and challenging tasks foster deeper engagement, elevate cognitive processing, and enhance the evaluation of student understanding. Traditional assessments often rely on ‘selected’ responses, such as multiple-choice questions, which may not accurately measure a student’s knowledge compared to ‘constructed’ responses, where students complete an interactive task. These Constructed Response items, also known as Technology Enhanced Items (TEIs), offer a more accurate gauge of student understanding, foster more engaging learning experiences, and minimize the impact of guessing.

edaptAI provides a comprehensive and continually growing collection of over 60 prebuilt TEI formats and interactive elements, encouraging designers to favor constructed responses over selected responses in their course content.

Our research into Constructed Response, inspired by ‘Construction versus Choice in Cognitive Measurement’ by Bennett, R. E. (1993), is rooted in the science of learning.

Prevent Generative-AI assisted cheating

Our interactive formats and constructed response items enable designers to develop assessments that require unique student generated answers.”

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Interactive Items

Require "constructed" instead of "selected" responses.

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Deeper Questions

Challenge students to analyze the question content in order to respond.

Copy Protection

Prevent the ease of copying question stems to ask GenAI for an answer.

Pedagogy:

Overview

Mastery Learning

Scaffolding

Dual Coding

Knowledge Segmentation

Constructed Response

Our thoughts

Platform

Preserving Academic Integrity: The Role of Generative AI and its Misuse

Generative AI, also known as Generative Artificial Intelligence, is a distinct subset of artificial intelligence that is capable of producing unique content. It creates new outputs, including text, visuals, or sound, by recognizing and replicating patterns in the data it has been trained on, utilizing sophisticated machine learning methods such as deep neural networks. Despite its extensive application in fields like creative arts, content generation, and language processing, the ethical use and potential for misuse of generative AI have ignited ongoing debates about its responsible deployment.

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March 8, 2024

Pedagogy

Advancing Assessments: The Role of Constructed Response in Boosting Higher Cognitive Processing

Assessment techniques are crucial instruments in measuring student comprehension and learning results. Constructed response and selected response assessments, the two main categories, provide unique methods for assessing student knowledge and abilities.

Edapt Team

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January 2, 2024

Pedagogy

Enhancing Comprehension through Knowledge Segmentation and Dual-Coding

Cognitive overload, a concept developed by John Sweller in the late 80s, happens when a task surpasses our cognitive system's capacity. It builds on G.A. Miller's theory of short-term memory's limited capacity of 5 to 9 items. Cognitive overload has three types: intrinsic (content complexity), extraneous (information presentation), and germane (efforts for long-term memory storage). Instructional designers can manage extraneous load through effective content and delivery, and aid learners in developing processes for long-term memory storage.

Edapt Team

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March 6, 2024

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