(733) WEEKLY QUIZZES AS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING AND TO PROMOTE ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION IN LARGE CLASSES

摘要

The aim of this work, started 15 years ago, is to improve student engagement and participation to University Molecular Biology lessons, their performance and preparation through the introduction of quizzes that I designed and mailed, using institutional e-mail account, to each student enrolled spontaneously and freely in test group open weekly on my institutional web site (https://www.docenti.unina.it/rosanna.delgaudio). Based on the information provided to the students during the week-to-week lessons, I have build different types of quizzes: multiple choice answers, fill-in, open writing sentences. In addition, with the idea that students should also take notes from reading, the question texts are often very detailed and informative so that they can be used when students are preparing exams. Moreover, the answers to some questions also required an individual study both from the textbook and from the notes taken from the recordings or during the lessons of the course. In the first five years I accepted that the students could send by email their answer, but in the last years I have chosen to get only students printed answers.