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Faculty Instructional Technology Resources -
Best Practices
Pre-test / Tutorial / Post-Test
Overview
Have you ever spent too much class time teaching skills or concepts that
students "should know already"? You know half the class is bored
to death, and you'd rather be teaching more advanced concepts, but you have
to make sure the other half of the class is up to speed before you can move
forward.
There is no perfect solution, but the Pre-test / Tutorial / Post-Test method
can help. In short, you:
- Give students a short, ungraded quiz to give students
a snapshot of their ability to apply certain skills and concepts,
- Provide tutorial resources to refresh students' memories
if - and only if - they need to review, and
- Give them a brief, graded post-test to be sure they
are up to speed.
Examples
Many of the modules below require the latest version of Flash Player. Download
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Best-Suited to...
- Students who are seeing this material for the second or third time (e.g.,
students who covered the material in a previous class, recently or years
ago)
- Self-motivated, responsible students
- Faculty who are willing to rely on the tutorial; if students find that
you'll "teach it all anyway," they have no incentive to actually
complete the tutorial.
- Subjects that stay relatively stable from year to year. Setting up this
system requires a significant input of time and energy, and you'll want
the content to be usable for a number of semesters.
Key points
- This format can be created in interactive online format or less-interactive
but still-functional paper format.
- The pre-test and the tutorial are optional and ungraded.
- Students can re-use the pre-test and tutorial as often
as they like until they are confident in their skills.
- The post-test is required, graded (usually maximum 5%
of the course grade), and can only be done once.
- Pre- and post-test questions should focus on application and
synthesis, not just factual recall.
- The pre-test is designed so students can get feedback on their
answers and be directed to targeted tutorial resources without
intervention from the instructor. This increases student feedback and
decreases faculty load.
- Tutorial resources are varied: you might include text
written by you, web sites, references to textbooks or other print sources,
or pre-existing online modules.
Templates
See this page for some templates and instructions. |