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Using preparatory quizzes to aid study strategies study methods
- 139 undergraduate students taking an intro Mechanical Engineering course
- 42 students were in the control group (no pre-quizzes) and 97 students were in the treatment group (pre-quizzes)
- The majority of participants were men and mechanical engineering majors
- The treatment and control group were the same in that they both had weekly problem sets for homework, in class post-quizzes, two midterms, and a cumulative final exam
- Pre-quizzes were given out on blackboard and consisted of about 6-8 questions which required the student to compute a value
- Most of the questions on the pre-quizzes were multiple choice and each student only had one opportunity to take it
- Pre-quizzes match the material that is on the homework assignment
- Pre-quizzes were easier and simpler than the post-quizzes
- Students were provided with an online version of the textbook
- Docviewer is the program used to analyze how the students studied-it was pre-installed on Windows Surface tablets that each student was loaned in order to take the class
- “DocViewer constructs a log file containing a time-stamped record of events including when the user opens or closes a document, changes pages within a document, or pans and zooms on a page”
- DocViewer recorded episodes in which a single page of the document is visible on the screen for at least 15 seconds
- During the control quarter, DocViewer only dimmed after 10 minutes but in the treatment quarter, DocViewer dimmed after 2 minutes
- They calculated the total time spent in the textbook and the number of unique visits to pages within the textbook-they also examined the total amount of time spent on each specific content area
- Lead time measurement-quantifying when the student read the material=average weighted time of reading prior to homework deadlines
- Study session-”period of time during which a student interacts with documents in DocViewer such that there is no more than 1 hour of consecutive inactivity”
- Measures for academic performance-average grade on in-class quizzes for short term performance, grade on the final exam for long term performance, and course grade as achievement in the course
- Procedure-3 hours of lecture a week and 1 hour of discussion a week; students assigned homework and readings; had in-class quizzes based on the homework assignments; the textbook corresponded with the pre-quizzes which encourages earlier readings of it
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Updated 2021-04-26
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