Subject: Quiz - Alphabetical "order"
Posted by: GBfan
Date: Apr 20 25
I created a quiz using the Order Format. It was an alphabetical quiz where a country of origin was what was being ordered. Australia comes before Brazil..... Editor said it doesn't qualify as an order quiz? Wouldn't alphabetical order count?
Posted by: GBfan
Date: Apr 20 25
I created a quiz using the Order Format. It was an alphabetical quiz where a country of origin was what was being ordered. Australia comes before Brazil..... Editor said it doesn't qualify as an order quiz? Wouldn't alphabetical order count?
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WesleyCrusher
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You'd really have to discuss this with the editor, but, just from the information you gave, I'd personally tend to side with them. In an order quiz, you can be slightly off and still get a decent score (like you might not know the exact height of the Eiffel Tower but still know it's taller than the Great Pyramid and less tall than the Empire State Building). A small error is going to hurt you less than a big one. Alphabetical countries don't give you that - if you misplace a Canadian as US or a German as Swiss, you've technically been close, but the order is entirely messed up. However, if you grossly misplace the Canadian as Chinese and the German as Ghanan, you might still get 10/10 - which is against the spirit of the format. If you want to do something like this, maybe ordering west to east could work. That way, erroneously placing an option in a country close to the real one would still work. (Just be very sure in this case to CLEARLY indicate where your start line is - i.e. where you "cut up" the globe and, obviously, you could not use countries with a large west to east span. As an example, the US would pretty much overlap most of the Americas, preventing your from using another American option. Thus, this would likely work better with cities than with countries.) Reply #1. Apr 20 25, 3:34 PM |
kyleisalive
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To be honest, with my player hat on for this, it sounds like it's trying to complicate an otherwise alright quiz concept. If the point is to guess where the person is from, shouldn't that be enough? What's the added spark that comes from also needing to put their countries of origin in alphabetical order? Why not just make it a Match Quiz and put them in that order? If I already know them, that just seems like room to intentionally trip the player up instead of test them on the core knowledge in the same way that making a vocabulary quiz all-FITB does. It's a higher likelihood that someone who actually knows the answer screws up on a weird technicality, and that can be very hit or miss with player reception. Reply #2. Apr 20 25, 3:52 PM |
trident
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I haven't seen the quiz in question, but I would be very likely to reject an Order quiz if the main premise was to sort the items alphabetically. Reply #3. Apr 20 25, 4:17 PM |
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