{"id":2944,"date":"2019-03-28T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:52:03","slug":"how-students-learn-from-writing-their-own-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/2019\/03\/28\/how-students-learn-from-writing-their-own-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"How Students Learn From Writing Their Own Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although not a terribly new concept, there is quite a bit of literature out there that supports improved learning (and retention of knowledge) by students when they participating in creating questions for a quiz or exam. As this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/a-professor-asked-his-students\/245997?cid=tn&amp;cid=nwsltrtn\">Chronicle.com article details<\/a>, not just any question types will do. Multiple-choice questions rarely challenge the intellect of students. True\/false are worse. As the article details, professor Max Teplitski wanted students to focus on higher-order cognitive processes. So he had them learn about Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not a terribly new concept, there is quite a bit of literature out there that supports improved learning (and retention of knowledge) by students when they participating in creating questions for a quiz or exam. As this Chronicle.com article details, not just any question types will do. Multiple-choice questions rarely challenge the intellect of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}