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Direct linkMcAllister, Daniel; Guidice, Rebecca M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
The primary goal of teaching is to successfully facilitate learning. Testing can help accomplish this goal in two ways. First, testing can provide a powerful motivation for students to prepare when they perceive that the effort involved leads to valued outcomes. Second, testing can provide instructors with valuable feedback on whether their…
Descriptors: Testing, Role, Student Motivation, Feedback (Response)
Download full textParsons, Jim; Fenwick, Tara – 1999
This "toolbox" offers suggestions about how and when to create objective tests. Such tests are sometimes a quick way to find out how students are doing, and sometimes they help students focus on what they are doing in class or help teachers define the content that is worth knowing. The following suggestions are offered for developing objective…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Objective Tests
