Introductory Psychology Student Performance: Weekly Quizzes Followed by a Cumulative Final Exam

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Abstract

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.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)177-180
Number of pages4
JournalTeaching of Psychology
Volume34
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Dec 2007

EGS Disciplines

  • Psychiatry and Psychology

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