Links to Computing Skills Quizzes on the web.
This series of URLs covers a range of computing skills for either PC or Macintosh users. The quizzes could be used:
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as a pre-test of student knowledge and understanding of computing skills prior to using computing skills within a subject context
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as a series of consolidation exercises for students with varying competency levels.
Teachers may wish to select the relevant URLs and have them displayed on the desktop of computers in the teachers staffroom, the library and in the computer laboratories for students/teachers to access when convenient.
http://www.quia.com/nom/tech/
This site contains a number of different games dealing
with vocabulary and terms pertaining to computers – java games involving
concentration, flash cards and matching exercises. Other games
include ‘hangman’ and ‘jumbled words’.
All of these games relate to our competencies. This is a very different
kind of quiz that would certainly test knowledge and understanding
of computing. Once you have tried one quiz, click on ‘New
Game’ to try another. Very entertaining and a MUST.
http://www.chaminade.org/MIS/Tutorials/Quizzes/BasicComputerQuiz1.htm
Some straightforward multiple choice questions that target a basic
understanding of computer terms. The questions are automatically
marked as you go. However, if you complete the test successfully
you progress to a more advanced quiz.
http://courses.unt.edu/orientation/web_home/Basic_Web/web_A.1.3.2.html
A set of 10 multiple choice questions on fundamental aspects of
computing skills.
http://courses.unt.edu/orientation/web_home/Basic_Web/web_A.1.3.3.html
A set of 10 multiple-choice questions targeting Internet Literacy:
basic but good.