Replacing dry multiple-choice tests with quizzes akin to the hit TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire could help boost comprehension levels in children.
Tzu-Hua Wang at the National Hsinchu University of Education in Taiwan has devised a web-based multiple choice testing system with some fun elements influenced by the TV quiz. The system gives pupils the chance to 鈥減rune鈥� away two incorrect answers from four 鈥� or, in a nod to 鈥減hone a friend鈥�, they may ask the class for help.
Unsurprisingly, children were more willing to be tested using Wang鈥檚 system. But he also found kids had higher comprehension levels after using it, suggesting the system could be used for educational purposes, he says in a paper to be published in Computers and Education ().
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