Advantages
Incentivises students to engage with course content, provides technology enriched feedback to students, and helps to identify students at risk (via comprehension checking and in-class discussions). The interactive learning encouraged in this technique helps build students' critical thinking skills as well as offer an opportunity to practice effective communication. Critical, deep reading is foundational to all HaSS disciplines, as is encouraging a thorough engagement with course content, making this assessment well suited to all HaSS courses.
Challenges
The full benefits of this technique are realised when students attend discussion sessions. Students have engaged well with this technique in its current deliveries, but coordinators may need to be prepared to respond to attendance/attrition issues should they arise. It can be initially time intensive to create questions with detailed feedback– this can be mitigated against by initially creating a small question set and adding to this in subsequent iterations of the course.
Tips for implementation
Staff overseeing this technique should dedicate some time to identifying students struggling with content and encouraging their participation in discussion sessions (based on monitoring performance in quizzes).
How it supports academic integrity
Students access online quizzes via their via student identifier which may discourage them from outsourcing this task. Additionally, students discuss the content of the quizzes in-class where staff may observe discrepancies in their spoken comprehension and online performance.