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Berg, Ronan M. G.; Plovsing, Ronni R.; Damgaard, Morten – Advances in Physiology Education, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Medical Students, College Students, Intervention, Student Evaluation
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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