Daily online testing in large classes: boosting college performance while reducing achievement gaps.

ABSTRACT: An in-class computer-based system, that included daily online testing, was introduced to two large university classes. We examined subsequent improvements in academic performance and reductions in the achievement gaps between lower- and upper-middle class students in academic performance. Students (N = 901) brought laptop computers to classes and took daily quizzes that provided immediate and personalized feedback. Student performance was compared with the same data for traditional classes taught previously by the same instructors (N = 935). Exam performance was approximately half a letter grade above previous semesters, based on comparisons of identical questions asked from earlier years. Students in the experimental classes performed better in other classes, both in the semester they too

SUBMITTER: Pennebaker JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3835925 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature