ERIC Number: EJ773884
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 4
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Faculty Forum--Introductory Psychology Student Performance: Weekly Quizzes Followed by a Cumulative Final Exam
Landrum, R. Eric
Teaching of Psychology, v34 n3 p177-180 2007
Students in an introductory psychology course took a quiz a week over each textbook chapter, followed by a cumulative final exam. Students missing a quiz in class could make up a quiz at any time during the semester, and answers to quiz items were available to students prior to the cumulative final exam. The cumulative final exam consisted of half the items previously presented on quizzes; half of those items had the response options scrambled. The performance on similar items on the cumulative final was slightly higher than on the original quiz, and scrambling the response options had little effect. Students strongly supported the quiz a week approach.
Descriptors: Tests, Psychology, Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods, Test Construction, Test Content, College Students, Introductory Courses, College Instruction, Educational Testing
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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