Part of what's interesting is they are testing before class starts, and there is always at least one question from weeks previous. I think that's a good approach.
"The first 10-minutes of each class were devoted to an 8-item daily quiz. Seven of the questions covered material from the previous lecture and readings. The remaining item was a personalized question consisting of a question the student had answered incorrectly on a previous quiz. In the unlikely event that the student answered all previous questions correctly, TOWER randomly selected another question that he/she had taken earlier in the semester." On Nov 22, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Christopher Green wrote: I'm thinking: recent effect. If you only test what you taught today, but not what you taught six or twelve weeks ago, of course you'll get better "results." Chris ----- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Paul C Bernhardt <[email protected]> wrote: I have an idea. Every class meeting is nothing but exam and assessment from start to finish. More must be better, right? More seriously: do we know the optimum ratio of testing to learning objectives covered? At what point are there diminishing returns? Paul Sent from my iPhone On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:12 PM, "Christopher Green" <[email protected]> wrote: As though you didn't have enough people telling you how to teach already. Still, interesting finding. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0079774?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosone%2FPLoSONE+%28PLOS+ONE+Alerts%3A+New+Articles%29 Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=30349 or send a blank email to leave-30349-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=30360 or send a blank email to leave-30360-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=30392 or send a blank email to leave-30392-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=30426 or send a blank email to leave-30426-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
