Skills Development - Centre of Social Responsibility Initiatives
SONAQZ
The research is in! Quizzes improve academic performance.
Did you know that if you quiz students once a week, they perform better on midterms and final exams? That’s right, quizzed students tend to outperform students who aren’t quizzed. Weekly quizzes, on top of instant teacher feedback, have a positive impact on students.
A recent study suggests that including more tests and quizzes during lectures may prevent students from losing focus.
Quiz helps the students to store the Factual knowledge in the long-term memory. Factual Knowledge: Knowledge of discrete, isolated content elements- “bits of information”. It includes knowledge of Terminology and knowledge of Specific details and Elements.
Factual knowledge is essential for students to apply their knowledge to the known situations and new, unknown situation to solve the personal, work place and societal problem.