Student-centered strategies are being incorporated into undergraduate classrooms in response to a call for reform. We tested whether teaching in an extensively student-centered manner (many active-learning pedagogies, consistent formative assessment, cooperative groups; the Extensive section) was more effective than teaching in a moderately student-centered manner (fewer active-learning pedagog...

Kibble J. Use of unsupervised online quizzes as formative assessment in a medical physiology course: effects of incentives on student participation and performance. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 253–260, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00027.2007.—Online quizzes were introduced into a large Medical Physiology class to provide students with formative assessment before midterm and final summative examinations. Us...

The work follows on from a successful project which concentrated on the assessment of Numeracy, Mathematics and Statistics (Thelwall, 1998), the resulting product of which has been used extensively in the School, but has now reached retirement only because of technical reasons. The primary focus of this stage of the project is to develop a formative assessment tool that is conceptually similar ...

Feedback on formative assessment is a teacher's effort to help students with learning difficulties by responding their evaluation results, especially HOTS-based evaluations, which have higher level of completion. Therefore, this study aims determine the effect immediate feedback improving Material Comprehension (MC) and Learning Motivation (LM). Unfortunately, teacher needs provide due several ...