Creating learner-centered assessment strategies for promoting greater student retention and class participation
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Creating learner-centered assessment strategies for promoting greater student retention and class participation
Many teachers still use in-class multiple choice exams in their classes, the primary goal of which is to see how much the students have already learned. The assessment strategies we will examine in this paper change the focus from assessing whether students have learned anything to creating assessments which double as learning experiences themselves. Assessments do not have to merely measure wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00595