Student learning can be facilitated in many ways. I am a big fan of collaborative learning activities, especially a quiz or test completed as a team. There are a number of different variations of this type of formative learning activity: Peer Instruction – a term coined by Eric Mazur from Harvard where students work to complete quizzes individually and then as a team. Students have multiple attempts at the question as a team to maximise discussion and learning. This is a weekly activity. Two stage exams – the first paper I can find on this is Zip (2007) where students … Continue reading Team-based quizzes on no budget