The effect of short formative diagnostic web quizzes with minimal feedback

Computers and Education

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 234-242

  Bälter, Olle ^a   Enström, Emma ^a   Klingenberg, Bernhard ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance education and telelearning; Improving classroom teaching; Interactive learning environments; Post secondary education

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FEEDBACK; BASIC CONCEPTS; BINARY FEEDBACK; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELE-LEARNING; FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDY HABITS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DISTANCE EDUCATION; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84866519433     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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