BACKGROUND Web-based formative assessment tools have become widely recognized in medical education as valuable resources for self-directed learning. OBJECTIVES To explore the educational value of formative assessment using online quizzes for kidney pathology learning in our renal pathophysiology course. METHODS Students were given unrestricted and optional access to quizzes. Performance on ...

Online quizzes were introduced into a large Medical Physiology class to provide students with formative assessment before midterm and final summative examinations. Use of unsupervised online quizzes was chosen to provide a flexible supplementary learning tool for students without overwhelming a small faculty. Several quiz models were applied, which varied in the availability of course credit po...

Online quizzes were introduced into an undergraduate Exercise Physiology course to encourage students to read ahead and think critically about the course material before coming to class. The purpose of the study was to determine if the use of the online quizzes was associated with improvements in summative exam scores and if the online quizzes were valid predictors of summative exam performance...

Quiz-based and collaborative teaching strategies have previously been found to be efficient for the improving meaningful learning of physiology during lectures. These approaches have, however, not been investigated during laboratory exercises. In the present study, we compared the impact of solving quizzes individually and in groups with conventional teaching on the immediate learning during a ...

Abney AJ, Amin S, Kibble JD. Understanding factors affecting participation in online formative quizzes: an interview study. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 457–463, 2017; doi:10.1152/advan.00074.2017.—A positive correlation between performance and participation in formative quizzes and final summative examinations has been reported many times. The goal of the present interview study was to construct a mod...

OBJECTIVE The goal of the study was to determine which glaucoma quiz provides the best information about patient glaucoma knowledge to clinicians in clinical practice settings. METHODS Four glaucoma quizzes were identified from the literature and national eye education programs and were qualitatively analyzed to categorize questions by topic. Quizzes were assessed by 64 glaucoma specialists u...

PURPOSE The use of electronic tools in teaching is growing rapidly in all fields, and there are many options to choose from. We present one such platform, Learning Catalytics™ (LC) (Pearson, New York, NY, USA), which we utilized in our oral and maxillofacial radiology course for second-year dental students. MATERIALS AND METHODS The aim of our study was to assess the correlation between stude...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of online mastery quizzes in enhancing dental students' learning and preparedness for anatomy examinations. First-year dental students taking an integrated anatomy course at The Ohio State University were administered online mastery quizzes, made available for five days before each examination. The mastery quizzes were comprised of ten...

We have implemented World Wide Web based quizzes for an introductory microprocessor course. Our approach can be viewed as following that of an asynchronous learning network (ALN) model and has focused upon improving learning in a course taken by large number of undergraduate engineering students. Our work was tested on a subset of this class during the Fall 1996 semester with additional testing...