Quiz Making Activities Using the Multi-Mouse Quiz System in an Elementary School

Abstract

The Multi-Mouse Quiz System is an application used to treat quizzes in a classroom or other learning environment. The system comprises the Multi Mouse Quiz (MMQ) and MMQEditor. The MMQ is an application of Single Display Groupware (SDG), which enables multiple users to answer quizzes by connecting several mice to an ordinary computer. The MMQEditor is a personal computers (PCs) application designed to edit quizzes for MMQ. In this paper, the authors describe the activities of using MMQ and MMQEditor in an elementary school. Sixth grade children were asked to design quizzes using MMQEditor and then evaluate them mutually using MMQ. The results of the activities showed that the combination of MMQEditor and MMQ helped engage the children in the activities, the children easily operated MMQEditor, and learning was encouraged and deepened through the mutual evaluation of created quizzes.

Analyzing the Effect of Museum Practice by Using a Multi-Mouse Quiz among Children from Different Grades — A Reflection Perspective

“…We utilized an MMQ system (including MMQEditor, a software to edit MMQ quizzes, and MMQ) to support 6thgrade children in creating and answering quizzes in an elementary school setting. The results showed that the children found it easy to operate the MMQ system and that their learning was encouraged and deepened through the mutual evaluation of the quizzes themselves created [12] Based on these results, we carried out the similar practice, including the museum learning activity, among the 3rdgrade and 6th-grade children. This study aimed to confirm whether above results would be found among the 3rd-grade children and to determine which kind of engagement the children would have.…”