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Enhancing Students’ Learning Process Through Self-Generated Tests

Authors: Marcos Sanchez-Elez, Inmaculada Pardines, Pablo Garcia, Guadalupe Miñana, Sara Roman, Margarita Sanchez, Jose Luis Risco

Published in: Journal of Science Education and Technology | Issue 1/2014

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The use of new technologies in higher education has surprisingly emphasized students’ tendency to adopt a passive behavior in class. Participation and interaction of students are essential to improve academic results. This paper describes an educational experiment aimed at the promotion of students’ autonomous learning by requiring them to generate test type questions related to the contents of the course. The main idea is to make the student feel part of the evaluation process by including students’ questions in the evaluation exams. A set of applications running on our university online learning environment has been developed in order to provide both students and teachers with the necessary tools for a good interaction between them. Questions uploaded by students are visible to every enrolled student as well as to each involved teacher. In this way, we enhance critical analysis skills, by solving and finding possible mistakes in the questions sent by their fellows. The experiment was applied over 769 students from 12 different courses. Results show that the students who have actively participated in the experiment have obtained better academic performance.

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Title: Enhancing Students’ Learning Process Through Self-Generated Tests
Authors: Marcos Sanchez-Elez
Inmaculada Pardines
Pablo Garcia
Guadalupe Miñana
Sara Roman
Margarita Sanchez
Jose Luis Risco
Publication date: 01-02-2014
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Science Education and Technology / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1059-0145
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1839
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-013-9447-7

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