A powerful feature in using Waymaker is the information and feedback you get about your own learning. After you complete the assessments, the Study Plan updates to give you insights as to where you are doing well and where you still need some additional time reviewing.

What will it look like when you miss a question on a quiz? You will get a record of all of the questions and a note indicating which responses were correct and incorrect. You will not, however, be able to see which answer you selected. On the right side, you will see a column indicating which area of the Study Plan you need to review. Before the second attempt of the quiz, give yourself more time to study and practice with each of the concepts where you answered questions incorrectly.

Study Plan Updates

Let’s look at these sample results from a Introduction to Business quiz shown in the slides below. This student took the quiz and answered all of the questions correctly in the tiles named “Factors of Production” and “External Forces.” Because they did well on those sections of the quiz, they will see a star and a “Well done” written under the “Mastery” corner of the tile. The student did not do as well on the other four tiles. Here they got feedback that the tile “Needs work.” The student already jumped in and reviewed the “Stakeholders” section and because they did well on the Self Check, the tile updated to say, “On track.”

The results shown above also indicate that the student completed all of the Self Checks except for one—in “Functional Areas.” If they complete the Self Check now, the lower right corner will change to a checkmark and indicate that it was completed.

Note that just because a tile changes to say “Well done,” it does not mean you don’t need to review that section. The quiz questions will regenerate and you will see new questions with each quiz attempt. For this reason, it’s possible that you guessed in certain areas or still need review to understand the concepts, even if you got the questions right. Use the information from the Study Plan as well as your own thoughts about your performance to hone in on the areas you want to review. Remember, the goal is mastery learning. If there are concepts you are unsure about, take the extra time to learn and study.

Try It

Figure 1. This image from a Psychology course shows how the Study Plan updated after a student took their first quiz attempt. Use this information to answer the question that follows.

 

Tips for Taking Quizzes

The quizzes are designed to test your knowledge of the module content. While some of the questions can be difficult, they are not designed to trick you. You can follow some test-taking tips to help you excel on your quizzes and other exams:

• Read each question carefully. Multiple-choice exams also examine your ability to read carefully and thoughtfully, as much as they test your ability to recall and reason. You must answer the question that is being asked.
• Start with questions you feel most comfortable answering. You may want to click through the quiz and view all of the questions to get a sense of the scope of it all.
• Focus on just the question first and ignore the possible responses. Try to think of the possible answer without looking at the choices. Then uncover the answers and pick the one that matches your answer. Check to be sure that none of the other responses is better.
• Read the stem with each option treating them as a true-false question, and choose one that is most correct.

If you are unable to make a choice and need to spend more time with the question, or you answered the question but are unsure that you made the correct choice, make note of that question so you can come back to it. Move on and finish all of those questions that you can answer and then come back later to process the problematic questions. Sometimes the answer will occur to you simply because you are more relaxed after having answered other questions. If all else fails and you still can’t decide on a correct answer…guess. Hopefully, you’ll have the opportunity to study and try it again.