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Collaborative Testing Improves Performance but Not Content Retention in a Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Class
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Leight, Hayley; Saunders, Cheston; Calkins, Robin; Withers, Michelle – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
Collaborative testing has been shown to improve performance but not always content retention. In this study, we investigated whether collaborative testing could improve both performance and content retention in a large, introductory biology course. Students were semirandomly divided into two groups based on their performances on exam 1. Each group…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Biology, Scoring, Group Testing