As necessary as ongoing assessment is
for both teachers and students, many teachers complain that constant testing
stifles their creativity and destroys student interest, at a time when
motivation is mandatory for the current crop of media-saturated students. So,
how can teachers assess student learning and evaluate the quality of their own
teaching, without losing the interest of their students?[1] (Romo) .
It is not a question without an answer. The answer is plain, simple and straightforward. Use Quiz!
It helps to ensure that students understand what you are teaching and
-- when they don’t -- to understand where your teaching has missed the mark. (Romo) .
Here are some interesting outcome of our experiment of ‘Using Quiz for Teaching’:
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Students identified and
rated following benefits of using Quiz in teaching:
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| As students voted for Unit-End-Quiz, we have put it in practice rather than daily or weekly quizzes |
It is observed that ‘this approach
encourages collaborative learning and creates a sense of community among the
students. It also gets students coming to class prepared, and I think it makes
the quizzes a more positive and useful learning experience’[2]. (Deterding)
Here are the links to visit the quiz pages:
- Quiz on 'The Background Reading: The Renaissance English Literature'
- Quiz on Criticism, Plato's Objection and Aristotle's Poetics
- Quiz on Sir Philip Sidney and John Dryden
- Quiz on The Twentieth Century Literature
- Quiz on T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
- Quiz on Virginia Woolf's 'To The Lighthouse'
- Quiz on Mathew Arnold's 'The Study of Poetry.