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[Doug Shook <dsshook@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with what Ian said, but I also wanted to point out that the games
draw questions randomly from the pool of available questions.  Therefore its
very unlikely that they will even see every question in a set when they play
the game.  That being said, making the sets a reasonable size is important
to ensure they see a variety of questions each play through.

The chances that they will repeat questions is entirely random, so don't
factor that in when making the sets.  Memorization is not a bad thing
either, especially for simpler questions.  You would EXPECT them to memorize
answers, that means they're learning.  Since the placement of the choices is
also randomized each time a question is asked, there's little to fear about
them memorizing locations of answers instead of the answers.

Bottom line: question sets need to cover the material adequately, as Ian
said.  Within reason, more is better.  Levels are completely independent
from the sets and the number of levels should be determined by how long we
want the game experience to be.

Hope this helps.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ian Crotty <archangel114@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mathematics questions would be easy to generate a lot of as we have a lot
> of versatility with them.  We also do not have to be limited to x+y=z.  we
> can do things such as a+b+c=z or any combination of things to that nature.
>  What we need to make sure of is that we are covering the students
> curriculum adequately.  Sometimes repetition can be helpful in teaching them
> the concepts.  On the other hand repetition just allows them to memorize the
> question and answer and blow through it.  BF will more than likely take up a
> goodly chunk of time just getting through 10 levels and I imagine these
> students will have maybe 30 minutes to play, an hour tops.
>
> If we want to see them finish a game we may want to cut down on the levels
> as BF (and yes i realize we changed the name but its force of habit) has no
> save progression abilities.  It may be a good idea to set up another time
> with the class to have them test the game more thoroughly with longer
> periods of time with the game or have other people we know play the game as
> well.  This may be something we should talk to Christy about (the amount of
> time they get with each game) and we can go from there.
>
> Ian Crotty
> UTS Hardware Technician
> Ball State University
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Andy Elsten <aelsten86@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> alright guys after making some levels and question sets I noticed that BF
>> runs every level that we have. Keeping that in mind if we want each question
>> to be unique then we need at least 4 times the questions than levels in each
>> of the question sets. So if we have 20 levels there hast to be at least 80
>> to 100 questions in each set. If this is desirable no big deal I can make
>> the question sets bigger.
>>
>> My main question is, have we given any thought as to how many levels they
>> are going to run through each time? I only post this question to get feed
>> back on the decision to make the questions sets huge to get more unique
>> questions or post a limit on the number of levels for each run to reduce the
>> chances to repeat question. Just let me know your thoughts on the topic
>>
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