To investigate the effect of quiz frequency on the course performance of Iranian university students of English, the mean scores of five groups of subjects were compared using a balanced one-way ANOVA procedure. Analyses revealed that quizzes significantly improve course performance. With some exceptions, it was also found that the more frequently the subjects were quizzed, the better their cou...

Formative assessments allow learners to quickly identify knowledge gaps. In traditional educational settings, expert instructors can create assessments, but in informal learning environment, it is difficult for novice learners to self assess because they don’t know what they don’t know. This paper introduces Questimator, an automated system that generates multiple-choice assessment questions fo...

 In the context of increasing student disengagement with on campus teaching and learning activities, the author undertook a project in order to stimulate and maintain student interest in a first year engineering course. Online technology has been used in order to provide students with flexible access to self paced interactive study materials in the form of online quizzes. These quizzes were al...

We conduct two experiements of the claim that people are overconfident. We develop new tests of overplacement which are based on a formal Bayesian model. Our two experiments, on easy quizzes, find overplacement. More precisely, we find apparently overconfident data that cannot be accounted for by a rational population of expected utility maximizers with a good understanding of the nature of the...

Internet computer games turn to be more and more attractive within the context of technology enhanced learning. Educational games as quizzes and quests have gained significant success in appealing and motivating learners to study in a different way and provoke steadily increasing interest in new methods of application. Board games are specific group of games where figures are manipulated in com...

Traditional multiple-choice quizzes do not tell us how confident the students are in their answers. To provide this additional information, researchers have proposed “fuzzy” multiple-choice quizzes, in which a student explicitly describes his/her degree of confidence in each possible answer. The idea is reasonable, but, as we show, the current grading scheme for such quizzes discourages student...

Our previous research indicates that using personality quizzes is a viable and promising way to build user profiles to recommend entertainment products. Based on these findings, our current research further investigates the feasibility of using personality quizzes to build user profiles not only for an active user but also his or her friends. We first propose a general method that infers users’...

Although a great deal of empirical evidence has indicated that retrieval practice is an effective means of promoting learning and memory, very few studies have investigated the strategy in the context of an actual class. The primary purpose of this study was to determine if a series of very brief retrieval quizzes could significantly improve the retention of previously tested information throug...

INTRODUCTION Audience response systems (ARS) are increasingly popular; however, their contribution to education is not completely clear. Our study found that scores from review quizzes delivered by an ARS correlate with in-training exam (ITE) scores and are viewed positively by residents. This information may be useful in identifying poor performers early so that targeted educational interventi...