Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) can be used as a resource repository but also as an environment to encourage independent student learning. Customised online assignments that can be assembled by the lecturer can be found in teaching resources such as Mastering Biology, developed by Pearson Publishers. In this study, student engagement in both summative and formative assignments was measured...

This paper reports on a project involving the development and formative evaluation of an interactive World Wide Web-based learning tool. The interactive graphing tool (IGT) permits students to sketch a graph on screen using a mouse and responds to a wide range of common graph types. The IGT facilitates an iterative approach to understanding graphical representations of knowledge by actively inv...

Timely, formative feedback is just as important for instructors students. In this project, “embedded students” provided with through anonymized reports. Students associated the First2 Network NSF INCLUDES Alliance and enrolled in first or second year STEM courses volunteered to submit weekly reports documenting their ongoing experiences learning content, specifically chemistry math courses. Emb...

The purpose of this research is to investigate how teachers and students implement OCF in speaking for EFL students. This aims at figuring out reviewing the process, implementation, preferences teaching-learning classroom by applying a type assessment; that oral corrective feedback (OCF). English needs have an assessment as it becomes crucial affects from diagnostic test final test. Speaking sk...

FODEM (FOrmative DEvelopment Method) is a design method for developing digital learning environments for widely dispersed learning communities. These are communities in which the geographical distribution and density of learners is low when compared to the kind of learning communities in which there is a high distribution and density of learners (such as those that exist in urban areas where co...

BACKGROUND Exams in anatomy courses are traditionally summative. Formative testing induces retrieval practice, provides feedback and enhances learning results. We investigated the optimal frequency for retrieval practice during an anatomy course. METHOD During a first-year course, students were offered four online daily quizzes a week that assessed thoracic anatomy. Once a week they received ...