This grey box is called the "text field." This is where your students will type their answers if you are creating a test to be used on the computer. A grey box will appear that allows text to be typed in. Type a question about the planets that requires a short-answer or essay response.As you drag your cursor over the icons, titles will appear that identify each icon and its function. Open a Word document and click on "View," then "Toolbars," then "Forms." The Forms toolbar (shown below in #2) should pop up. Practice creating a test by using a simple content area such as the solar system.You can also print out a paper version of the test for your students.Įither way, creating tests with Microsoft Word is an easy alternative to the traditional method and allows for more creativity without a lot more effort. You can print a copy for grading and return that copy to the student. If your students have computers at their desks, or regularly visit the media lab at your school, they can take the test electronically. The great advantage to this tool is that you can save the document as a template and avoid retyping the information over and over. Even if you're a novice at computers, developing short-answer, essay, or multiple-choice tests can be done in four simple steps.
Name this something like ‘APA Reference’, ensuring ‘Add to Quick style list’ is also selected, and click ok.If you have access to a computer, and enjoy experimenting with new ways to design quizzes for your students, you can create easy interactive tests in various formats using Microsoft Word. The selection will default to the format of the text you have selected (your reference), which is correct. Select a reference that you just formatted by dragging over it with your mouse You’ll likely add / remove references in the process of editing, so it’s best to save the reference style for quick application in the future. That’s it! Your references should be in good shape. Click ok.Į) Set your font to Times New Roman, size 12. This is the amount of space to leave between paragraph blocks. And unlike the rest of your paper they should be single spaced.ĭo NOT add tabs to do this, there’s a better way:Ī) Select all your references by dragging over them with your mouse.ĭ) In Spacing ensure line-spacing is ‘Single’, and enter ‘16pt’ in the field labelled ‘after’. Harvard Educational Review, 33(1) 1-20.ĪPA requires that all lines other than the first be ‘hanging’, that means indenting them by 1/2 inch. Then the journal in Italics “ Harvard Educational Review”.Not every word is capitalized: “How to format references” Then you put the year of the paper in parens (1994).Authors are listed Surname, Initials: “Rathbone, M.A.”.Seeing as I’m usually the dogs-body who ends up fixing APA reference formatting on an almost weekly basis, I thought I’d document it so maybe my wife will learn how (hint hint). If you’re like my wife, you’ll likely start inserting tabs and newlines all over the place, but then if you ever have to edit your references you’ll end up with a mess you’ll have to fix manually, which can be frustrating. If you write a lot of academic papers in the social sciences (like my wife does) you’re likely going to have to manually format some references at one time or another.
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