Online Quizzing Changed How I Use Quizzes

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Credit: iStock.com/skynesher
Before March 2020, I believed firmly that frequent, in-class quizzes were a way to ensure students had prepared for class and had some understanding of the material. In fact, I was notorious for pop quizzes, although I did make it a practice of dropping the lowest quiz scores. During my decades teaching, I never really questioned the efficacy of quizzes—not until that one day in March 2020, a day that helped me change my teaching practices for the better.

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  1. I did not follow how the last line relates to the rest “Giving students autonomy over their learning practices helps them practice higher-order thinking skills, thereby allowing them to broadly apply course curriculum in both their college and post-college lives.” How are they getting their autonomy since they are still doing the quiz that you designed and they have to take it?

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