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Higher retention after a new take‐home computerised test
Author(s) -
Park Jooyong,
Choi ByungChul
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00752.x
Subject(s) - multiple choice , recall , test (biology) , control (management) , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , multimedia , artificial intelligence , significant difference , statistics , cognitive psychology , mathematics , paleontology , biology
A new computerised testing system was used at home to promote learning and also to save classroom instruction time. The testing system combined the features of short‐answer and multiple‐choice formats. The questions of the multiple‐choice problems were presented without the options so that students had to generate answers for themselves; they could click for the options when they were ready, and could choose one of the options within a brief, specified time period. One hundred thirty‐eight Korean sixth‐grade students (12‐year olds) were divided into two groups: the experimental group took the intervening test on social studies using the new computerised testing method, and the control group used a computerised version of the traditional multiple‐choice method. A few days after the intervening computerised test, a recall posttest was given in paper‐and‐pencil format. The mean posttest score was greater for the experimental group than for the control group. Implications of the result are discussed.