Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students
Web-based technology is particularly well-suited to promoting active student involvement in the processes of learning. All students enrolled in a first-year educational psychology unit were required to complete ten weekly online quizzes, ten weekly student-generated questions and ten weekly student...
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| author | Johnson, Genevieve Marie Broadley, Tania |
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| description | Web-based technology is particularly well-suited to promoting active student involvement in the processes of learning. All students enrolled in a first-year educational psychology unit were required to complete ten weekly online quizzes, ten weekly student-generated questions and ten weekly student answers to those questions. Results of an online survey of participating students strongly support the viability and perceived benefits of such an instructional approach. Although students reported that the 30 assessments were useful and reasonable, the most common theme to emerge from the professional reflections of participating lecturers was that the marking of questions and answers was unmanageable. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-74142021-01-25T05:50:00Z Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students Johnson, Genevieve Marie Broadley, Tania Active learning student engagement online quizzes effective questioning Web-based technology is particularly well-suited to promoting active student involvement in the processes of learning. All students enrolled in a first-year educational psychology unit were required to complete ten weekly online quizzes, ten weekly student-generated questions and ten weekly student answers to those questions. Results of an online survey of participating students strongly support the viability and perceived benefits of such an instructional approach. Although students reported that the 30 assessments were useful and reasonable, the most common theme to emerge from the professional reflections of participating lecturers was that the marking of questions and answers was unmanageable. 2012 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7414 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7870 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Active learning student engagement online quizzes effective questioning Johnson, Genevieve Marie Broadley, Tania Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students |
| title | Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students |
| title_full | Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students |
| title_fullStr | Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students |
| title_short | Web-based active learning and frequent feedback: Engaging first-year university students |
| title_sort | web-based active learning and frequent feedback: engaging first-year university students |
| topic | Active learning student engagement online quizzes effective questioning |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7870 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7414 |