Title |
Cumulative assessment: strategic choices to influence students’ study effort
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Published in |
BMC Medical Education, December 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-13-172 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Wouter Kerdijk, René A Tio, B Florentine Mulder, Janke Cohen-Schotanus |
Abstract |
It has been asserted that assessment can and should be used to drive students' learning. In the current study, we present a cumulative assessment program in which test planning, repeated testing and compensation are combined in order to influence study effort. The program is aimed at helping initially low-scoring students improve their performance during a module, without impairing initially high-scoring students' performance. We used performance as a proxy for study effort and investigated whether the program worked as intended. |
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Netherlands | 1 | 50% |
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Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
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Unknown | 35 | 95% |
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Lecturer | 8 | 22% |
Student > Master | 6 | 16% |
Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 4 | 11% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 8% |
Other | 7 | 19% |
Unknown | 4 | 11% |
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Social Sciences | 9 | 24% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 22% |
Psychology | 7 | 19% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 8% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 5% |
Other | 3 | 8% |
Unknown | 5 | 14% |
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