quizes
I would think that if you give your students to many quizes you will start to lose their attention. My question would be is how often should you consider giving them a quiz?
Randall, this is exactly what I do also. It also reviews what I went over from the chapter and if they have missed anything during my lectures.
I usually give a weekly quiz in a short class-meaning it only meets for 6 weeks. I try to tie each quiz together based on the previous quiz to further move the discussion.
I find quizes after each chapter or learning objective is best to help the student build and retain the material.
I really like to use weekly quizzes instead of a midterm and final. This seems to be a more honest assessment because students don’t have “all their eggs in one basket”.
Hi Scott - you are quite right, especially in the fast paced class that you describe, assessing before moving on to new matreial is essential.
In a technical setting, quizzes only measure specific kind of data. weekly quiz seems to be the norm for 8+ weeks class.
it depends on how the course is layed out. here in a three week rotation, we can teach electrical 1 week, transmissions the next, brakes the next. so we quiz every week. i feel quiz before you move on to the next that way if there are questions get them taken care of before you move too far away form topic and information gets lost.
I give 4 quizzes in a 6 week course. They are 25 questions each and have specific clear answers (not all of the above or none of the above). This is a kitchen so after a week of starch/veg cookery, they are given a relevant quiz pertaining to that learned information and the same applies to the other subjects of proteins, stocks and sauces and soups. They learn it, they are quizzed about it.
Different courses and material need more or less quizzes in my opinion. In a class where material is being learned for the first time and needs memorization of terms I will end each day with a 10 question oral quiz with questions they may hear 3 days in a row. This has dramatically improved final exam scores by assisting them with memorizing hard terms or subject matter.
I try not to gives quizes (maybe 1 every six weeks - my students get too stressed out over grades and since I teach in a culinary school it's not about test so much as it is what they can do with their hands
Hi Jamie - do you do other forms of assessment besides the one quiz?
I usually only give one quiz per 6 week term. I find that giving a quiz is usually more distracting to the students than it is beneficial to them. If they are taking other classes they tend to only concentrate on the class that is having the quiz/test.
Hi Scott - In a normal quarter of 11 weeks I use a weekly quiz. In the accelerated 5 1/2 week classes I often make it a short daily quiz at the start of class.
