Exploring Second-Chance Testing as a Practical Form of Mastery Learning

探索第二次机会测试作为掌握学习的实用形式

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    1915257
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 60万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2019
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2019-10-01 至 2023-09-30
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by investigating how second-chance testing improves student learning and retention. The significance of this work is rooted in the observation that some students fail courses, even though they have to ability to succeed and willingness to work. These students often fail because they overestimate the adequacy of their preparation for an exam or misunderstand course expectations. This failure can prevent these qualified students from persisting in STEM majors and joining the STEM workforce. Second-chance testing is the practice of allowing students to take an exam and then giving them feedback on their performance. They are then allowed to further study the material and then take a second, equivalent exam for some form of grade replacement. Preliminary data show that second-chance testing improves average exam scores and reduces exam failure rates. This project will investigate best practices with respect to second-chance testing and characterize its benefits. The project will also study whether second-chance testing disproportionately helps students who are traditionally under-served by existing course structures. It will also study what can be done to help instructors adopt this practice.Second-chance testing can be a powerful technique because it exploits both the "testing effect" (increased long-term memory resulting from deliberate retrieval practice) and "test-potentiated learning" (increased ability of a learner to benefit from an opportunity to restudy a concept). In addition, it offers the potential to mitigate students' failures on exams due to their inability to correctly assess course expectations and their level of readiness. Preliminary data at the University of Illinois on second-chance testing has shown improvements in student performance measured by mean exam scores and a reduction in exam failure rates. In addition, this data showed that variations in the grading policy can exert considerable influence on which students choose to take the second chance exam. The goals of this project are to more rigorously measure the benefits of second-chance testing, map out the scope of grading policies and their impacts, and better understand the factors involved in faculty adoption of second-chance testing. The project will focus on three research questions. First, how much does second-chance testing improve students' cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes? Second, how do second-chance grading policies affect students' cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes on first-chance and subsequent second-chance exams? Third, does second-chance testing disproportionately help students who are traditionally under-served by single opportunity exam structures? The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划:教育和人力资源(IUSE:EHR)的支持下,该项目旨在通过调查第二次机会测试如何改善学生的学习和保留来服务于国家利益。这项工作的意义是植根于观察,一些学生失败的课程,即使他们有能力成功和愿意工作。这些学生经常失败,因为他们高估了他们对考试的准备或误解了课程的期望。这种失败可能会阻止这些合格的学生坚持STEM专业并加入STEM劳动力队伍。第二次机会测试是允许学生参加考试,然后对他们的表现给予反馈的做法。然后,他们被允许进一步学习材料,然后采取第二次,相当于某种形式的等级更换考试。初步数据显示,第二次机会测试提高了平均考试成绩,降低了考试失败率。该项目将调查第二次机会测试方面的最佳做法,并说明其好处。该项目还将研究第二次机会测试是否不成比例地帮助那些传统上没有得到现有课程结构服务的学生。第二次机会测试是一种强大的技术,因为它利用了“测试效应”(通过有意提取练习增加长期记忆)和“测试强化学习”(增加学习者从重新学习概念的机会中受益的能力)。此外,它提供了减少学生考试失败的可能性,因为他们无法正确评估课程的期望和他们的准备程度。伊利诺伊大学关于第二次机会测试的初步数据显示,以平均考试成绩衡量的学生表现有所改善,考试失败率有所降低。此外,这些数据表明,在评分政策的变化可以产生相当大的影响,学生选择参加第二次机会exam.The项目的目标是更严格地衡量第二次机会测试的好处,绘制出评分政策的范围及其影响,更好地了解教师采用第二次机会测试的因素。该项目将侧重于三个研究问题。第一,二次机会测试在多大程度上改善了学生的认知和非认知结果?第二,第二次机会评分政策如何影响学生在第一次机会和随后的第二次机会考试中的认知和非认知结果?第三,第二次机会考试是否不成比例地帮助了传统上单一机会考试结构服务不足的学生?NSF IUSE:EHR计划支持研究和开发项目,以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命,并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估,被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量(9)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Comparison of Grade Replacement and Weighted Averages for Second-Chance Exams
第二次机会考试的成绩替换和加权平均数比较
Investigating the Effects of Testing Frequency on Programming Performance and Students' Behavior
研究测试频率对编程表现和学生行为的影响
Learning to Cheat: Quantifying Changes in Score Advantage of Unproctored Assessments Over Time
学习作弊:量化无人监考评估的分数优势随时间的变化
Second-Chance Testing as a Means of Reducing Students' Test Anxiety and Improving Outcomes
第二次机会考试是减少学生考试焦虑和提高成绩的一种手段
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2023
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Emeka, Chinedu A.;Zilles, Craig;West, Matthew;Herman, Geoffrey L.;Bretl, Timothy
  • 通讯作者:
    Bretl, Timothy
Determining the Best Policies for Second-Chance Tests for STEM Students
确定 STEM 学生第二次机会测试的最佳政策
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2023
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Emeka, Chinedu A.;Smith, David H.;Zilles, Craig;West, Matthew;Herman, Geoffrey L.;Bretl, Timothy
  • 通讯作者:
    Bretl, Timothy
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Helping Improve and Scale Introductory Programming Courses through Automated Code-Reading Exercises
通过自动代码阅读练习帮助改进和扩展入门编程课程
  • 批准号:
    2121424
  • 财政年份:
    2021
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Investigating the Effects of a Mastery-based Assessment Approach on Undergraduate Engineering Education across Multiple Engineering Courses and Universities
调查基于掌握的评估方法对跨多个工程课程和大学的本科工程教育的影响
  • 批准号:
    2013334
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
REU Site: A Passionate on Parallel-A Summer Research Program
REU 网站:并行夏季研究项目的热情
  • 批准号:
    1263145
  • 财政年份:
    2013
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Support for the Thirteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2008
支持 2008 年第十三届编程语言和操作系统架构支持国际会议
  • 批准号:
    0813759
  • 财政年份:
    2008
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: Development of Concept Inventories for Computer Science
合作研究:计算机科学概念清单的开发
  • 批准号:
    0618589
  • 财政年份:
    2006
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
CAREER: A Framework for Dynamic Self-Tuning of General Purpose Programs
职业:通用程序动态自调整框架
  • 批准号:
    0347260
  • 财政年份:
    2004
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
A Hardware/Software Framework for Managing On-Chip Communication Latency
用于管理片上通信延迟的硬件/软件框架
  • 批准号:
    0311340
  • 财政年份:
    2003
  • 资助金额:
    $ 60万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant

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