NT331 Romans, quiz 1 (Spoiler alert!)
In my opinion there are a couple of peculiarities in quiz one. You may not agree, but I´ll point them out anyway.
Question two asks which cities were included in Paul´s travel plans. The correct answer is "Jerusalem, Rome and Spain". It is true that those were the travel plans, but last I looked Spain was a country, not a city.
Secondly, some of the questions are to some degree a matter of interpretation. I feel Dr. Moo is quite clear on this point when he presents the different options, e.g. the key theme of Romans. For that reason it is a little strange that there should be one right answer. On the other hand, this is a multiple choice assessment, and there is no such option as "defend your answer". Perhaps more questions could be closed with "according to Dr. Moo"
Just a thought
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Thanks for your comments. We've already noticed the issue with the "cities" included in Paul's travel plans and have rephrased the question to remove "cities". The change will be reflected in the next update.
As for your second point, you are right that some (perhaps even most) of the questions deal with matters of interpretation. We decided against adding "according to Dr. Moo…" for every interpretive question because we thought that would get too redundant. We do include it with some questions, but for the most part we write the questions for Mobile Ed. courses with the assumption that it reflects the speaker's position.
While the quizzes in the Mobile Ed. courses are limited to multiple choice, you can feel free to use the Faithlife group for the course to ask discussion questions and go deeper into some of the interpretive issues by offering your opinions. Faithlife recently added a "Discussions" feature (see this forum thread http://community.logos.com/forums/t/81726.aspx) and you can start a discussion of Dr. Moo's Romans course here: https://faithlife.com/nt331/topics.
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I do get that.Miles Custis said:We decided against adding "according to Dr. Moo…" for every interpretive question because we thought that would get too redundant.
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Sakarias Ingolfsson said:
I do get that.Miles Custis said:We decided against adding "according to Dr. Moo…" for every interpretive question because we thought that would get too redundant.
Maybe a disclaimer statement at the start of the quiz along the lines of "The correct answer to interpretive questions is that which best matches what Dr. Moo presents within the course." or something similar.
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Why not change it to "Where did Paul travel......" instead. I read this and opted NOT to buy this class one day.
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JoshInRI said:
Why not change it to "Where did Paul travel......" instead.
We updated this quiz several months ago. It reads "Where was Paul planning to travel…"
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Miles Custis said:
We updated this quiz several months ago. It reads "Where was Paul planning to travel…"
I believe JoshInRI was being sarcastic ;-)
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