Exploring the impact of cumulative testing on academic performance of undergraduate students in Spain

Frequent testing provides opportunities for students to receive regular feedback and to increase their motivation. It also provides the instructor with valuable information on how course progresses, thus making it possible to solve the problems encountered before it is too late. Frequent tests with...

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Published in:Educational assessment, evaluation and accountability evaluation and accountability, 2015-05, Vol.27 (2), p.153-169
Main Authors: Domenech, Josep, Blazquez, Desamparados, de la Poza, Elena, Mun͂oz-Miquel, Ana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Analysis
Assessment
College students
Correlation
Economics Education
Education
Education, Higher
Educational evaluation
Feedback
Feedback (Response)
Foreign Countries
Formative evaluation
Higher Education
Learning
Learning Processes
Microeconomics
Motivation
Spain
Student Motivation
Studies
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Testing
Testing and Evaluation
Tests
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:Frequent testing provides opportunities for students to receive regular feedback and to increase their motivation. It also provides the instructor with valuable information on how course progresses, thus making it possible to solve the problems encountered before it is too late. Frequent tests with noncumulative contents have been widely analysed in the literature with inconclusive results. However, cumulative testing methods have hardly been reported in higher education courses. This paper analyses the effect of applying an assessment method based on frequent and cumulative tests on student performance. Our results show that, when applied to a microeconomics course, students who were assessed by a frequent, cumulative testing approach largely outperformed those assessed with a single final exam.
ISSN:1874-8597
1874-8600
DOI:10.1007/s11092-014-9208-z