Collaborative Testing: Lab and Applied Research Findings

Research on teaching and learning is being done in virtually every discipline as well as in various education subfields. Unfortunately, the research in each of these domains tends to advance knowledge independently. Faculty researching the effects of clickers in biology courses are usually unaware of what studies of clicker use in psychology have uncovered. Recently, some well-known and highly respected researchers in cognitive psychology have been calling for work that integrates findings more broadly, and three psychologists answered with an interesting analysis of laboratory and applied research on collaborative testing. Their energies were focused on answering the following question: “When is collaborative testing most likely to enhance learning above and beyond individual testing?”

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