Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lectures a week and a section meeting in which a short quiz on assigned reading is given. Looking at Freshmen as they are and not as they ought to be it is quickly seen that the reading is done by more than the minority "who ought to be flunked anyway" for the sole purpose of passing that quiz; taken like a doze of salt instead of as food. Notes, if any are unsystematic, unimportant, and useless for review. They are probably not looked at again until the final exam Final grade "D"-disappointment because he "really worked damn...
Cumulative Quiz Suggested
...suggestion is the device, the guiding rein, leading him to do his work in the way he should, the way a conscientious student would do it if he knew the way, showing him the way if he does not know it. Call it the cumulative quiz. Applied to the example it works this way; the course goes on without change except in the matter of the section meeting quiz. The quiz, now a cumulative quiz, will have two parts. Part I, questions concerning the reading assigned for the immediate work; part II, questions on any work previously covered...
...matter of preparing the quiz is of the utmost importance. The questions on the week's reading must not be given, as it is suspected they have been, merely to disclose whether the student did the reading. Such questions as "Which wife did Henry VIII call a 'Flemish mare'?" are out. Questions must be only on important points. That will emphasize them. The class discussion can then amplify them. The result should be to fix them in the student's memory. It is for the instructor to decide what is important and put it across. The questions on back work...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin, excerpts from which are printed elsewhere in these columns. Mr. Giles S. Rich,, recently graduated from the College, has done a valuable service in the way of a criticism and remedy for an acknowledged problem-the examination system in large course. He labels his study "The Quiz in Large Courses", that anathema to student and instructor alike. Appropriately enough he concentrates his attention on Freshmen and singles out History 1 to illustrate his case...