Quiz Creating and Answering Activities of Across Grades Using Multi-mouse Quiz System in the Period for Integrated Studies in an Elementary School

• Published in: 2013 Second IIAI International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics pp. 172 - 177
• Main Authors: Juan Zhou, Mori, Mikihiko, Kita, Hajime, Watagoshi, Kiku
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.08.2013
• Subjects: Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computers; different grades learning; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; elementary school; face-to-face collaborative learning; Informatics; Mice; quiz learning
• ISBN: 9781479921348; 1479921343
• DOI: 10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2013.57

The Multi Mouse Quiz is a quiz application of Single Display Groupware to treat quizzes in a classroom or other learning environment. In this paper, we describe the activities of using MMQ in an elementary school. It is used in the Period for Integrated Studies in the third and sixth grade classes of elementary school, in which quiz creation, quiz answering were combined with visit of a museum. The six grade children visited the museum and created quizzes. Then, the third grade children answer the created quizzes with MMQ before and after their visit of the museum. The results showed that the MMQ helped engagement of the children in the activities, the third grade children operated MMQ without difficultly, the quiz activity encouraged the third grade children in learning in the museum, and both the third and sixth grade children reflected their learning in their own way.