Re: [Phys-l] The disappearing final exam

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

Yes, but IE produces even bigger gain because it is using continuous
formative assessment as students are continuously testing their ideas.
Reconsolidation can explain this result, and I have mentioned this cognitive
effect before.

So they got a 16% effect, and missed the larger effect produced by IE.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX

> "Such views are not only increasingly shared among professors, but also
> backed up by a growing number of studies. One such study, published last
> year, focused on more than 1,500 students taking algebra at Richard J.
> Daley College in Chicago between 2004 and 2006. M. Vali Siadat, the
> chairman of the math department there, compared the outcomes of algebra
> students who took weekly, cumulative quizzes over the course of the
> semester with those who received less rigorous, regular assessment.
>
> "Those tested weekly not only did better on the midterm and the final
> exams, but better overall, outperforming their classmates who did not
> receive regular quizzing by about 16 percent by the end of the semester.
> With regular, cumulative testing, Siadat concluded, the students were
> simply better prepared."
>
> The test has been canceled - The Boston Globe