Study Habits
Does answering Chapter questions help the students retain what they've learned?
I have found that assigning the chapter questions makes the student actually read the chapter. It seems if I don't assign the questions, they come to class unprepared.
I beleive if they studie in groups it helps them remember.
Answering chapter questions are a valuable learning tool after the chapter is discussed. Answering these questions orally helps students reinforce the information that was presented in the chapter; however, an instructor should prepare and discuss the questions he creates based on all of the class discussions which he or she involved the students in.
answering Chapter questions my help with retaining because active teaching involves reviewing material, and this certainly does that, but it should not bew the only thing. Many times Chapter questions are vague and require a degree of recolection that many technical students have not acquired.
I have my students write the HW questions out in an outline form which I hand back to them corrected so they can use this as a study guide. Alternatively, I ask them to write or submit 3-5 "exam type" questions which I may use or tweak a bit and then add them into the question bank if they are of good content. It forces them to keep the attitude of a test writer so they become better test takers.
I give end of Chapter questions and have the students write the questions out to help them to retain the information from it.
Not always. I write all of my own tests and always do a thorough review before each one is given.
