Online learning for students is one of the fastest growing trends in educational uses of technology. Literatures show that online learning could help students to reinforce their abilities and knowledge. The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ behavior in the learning system. The study developed online materials for one semester course of application of multimedia for the freshmen ...

Web-based parameterized quizzes provide teachers and students with several advantages as the technology for self-assessment. However, the effect of these advantages is strongly reduced, if a student does not receive enough support and cannot see her/his progress during the course. We have developed the system QuizGuide, which attempts to solve this problem by navigating students through the qui...

In a previous study (1) of online formative assessment in a medical school, I reported that scores on unsupervised online quizzes were predictive of outcomes on summative examinations. However, when no credit was assigned to the practice quizzes, the student participation rate was disappointing, at 50–60%. The lack of engagement in quizzes was found to be associated with significantly lower per...

An audience response system (ARS) was used to integrate a nursing classroom with technology. ARS can both engage students and provide immediate feedback. Students (n=60) enrolled in an introductory professional nursing course at a Southeastern U.S. university evaluated ARS use for testing. Literature on ARS use in nursing education is limited, thus the need to determine nursing students’ percep...

Introduction Traditional teacher-centered methods of teaching and learning are passive and affected by teacher's functions and horizons. Today, active teaching methods include teaching  students to be able to observe the situation for exploring and thinking deeper about the issue or problem . So the aim of this study is to survey students' views about the advantages of quizzes  in studying micr...

This paper proposes quiz-style information presentation for interactive systems as a means to improve user understanding in educational tasks. Since the nature of quizzes can highly motivate users to stay voluntarily engaged in the interaction and keep their attention on receiving information, it is expected that information presented as quizzes can be better understood by users. To verify the ...

We examined college students' procrastination when studying for weekly in-class quizzes. Two schedules of online practice quiz delivery were compared using a multiple baseline design. When online study material was made available noncontingently, students usually procrastinated. When access to additional study material was contingent on completing previous study material, studying was more even...