Practice testing is an effective learning strategy, but it can lead to increased test anxiety and often has low voluntary participation rate. This paper describes a case study on the effects of a re-designed practice test using game-like elements. The results indicate that the gamified practice test had a high student participation rate and showed improved test performance.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
BatsellW. J.PerryJ. L.HanleyE.HostetterA. B. (2017). Ecological validity of the testing effect: The use of daily quizzes in introductory psychology. Teaching Of Psychology, 44(1), 18-23. doi:10.1177/0098628316677492
2.
ChapellM. S.BlandingZ. B.SilversteinM. E.TakahashiM.NewmanB.GubiA.McCannN. (2005). Test Anxiety and Academic Performance in Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Journal Of Educational Psychology, 97(2), 268-274. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.97.2.268
3.
DeterdingS.KhaledR.NackeL.DixonD. (2011). Gamification: Toward a definition. Chi, 12–15.
4.
DunloskyJ.RawsonK. A.MarshE. J.NathanM. J.WillinghamD. T. (2013). Improving students’ learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science In The Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58. doi:10.1177/1529100612453266
5.
FeliciaP. (2012). Motivation in games: A literature review. International Journal of Computer Science in Sport, 11, 4–14.
6.
GriffinC. S.GableR. K. (2015, April). Analyzing the Relationship of Voluntary Student Participation in Optional Exam Review Sessions with Academic Self-Efficacy and Academic Performance. In Proceedings of the 47th annual meeting of the New England Educational Research Organization (Paper 21), Portsmouth, NH.
7.
HamariJ.KoivistoJ.SarsaH. (2014). Does gamificationwork?—A literature review of empirical studies on gamification. In Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 3025–3034). IEEE Computer Society. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2014.377
8.
KarpickeJ. D.RoedigerH. I. (2008). The critical importance of retrieval for learning. Science, 319(5865), 966-968. doi:10.1126/science.1152408
9.
KornellN.KleinP. J.RawsonK. A. (2015). Retrieval attempts enhance learning, but retrieval success (versus failure) does not matter. Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, And Cognition, 41(1), 283-294. doi:10.1037/a0037850
10.
KromannC. B.JensenM. L.RingstedC. (2009). The effect of testing on skills learning. Medical Education, 43(1), 21-27.
11.
NguyenK.McDanielM. A. (2015). Using quizzing to assist student learning in the classroom: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Teaching Of Psychology, 42(1), 87-92. doi:10.1177/0098628314562685
12.
RoedigerH. I.KarpickeJ. D. (2006). Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long- Term Retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249-255. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x
13.
StansburyJ. A.EarnestD. R. (2017). Meaningful gamification in an industrial/organizational psychology course. Teaching Of Psychology, 44(1), 38-45. doi:10.1177/0098628316677645
