You do not want to copy the results of a Check Your Knowledge
quiz and study them because you see only the correct answer and the answer you
chose.
To learn the content enough that you
can answer an essay question (not just memorize meaningless facts), you must
see all parts of the question and—if you missed a question or just had a lucky
guess—then go read the content for any question you missed.
For
the Check Your Knowledge quizzes, you WANT to do quickly without looking up
anything. You want to know what your brain thinks is true before you
read. If I give a longer time, students will start looking up stuff or
pondering the answer to try to figure it out instead of measuring what is in
their brains right now. Online reading is harder anyway and there seems to be a
tendency to click quickly when online.
I
have some students doing this to measure themselves:
1.
There are links to all the questions in each quiz in the Unit 1 webpage "Everything
You Need for This Unit (except the maps)" at the top of the Learning
Module. You can print those out for recording or you can copy to your own
computer the webpage of the quiz with tips. They also let you avoid reading
online.
2.
If you can’t afford to print the sheets, there are two ways out:
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Take a piece of notebook paper and write a number for each question.
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Type your answer for each question in a copy of the webpage.
3.
Make a quick decision about what you think is the right answer and write
the letter for your answer by the number.
4.
Go type those decisions into the Check Your Knowledge Quiz.
5.
Hit submit and see the results. Then record on
whatever will work for you both the answer and what you missed and then
start reading what you did not know.
As for the regular
quizzes, there are only 10 questions at 1 minute a question. When I first began
working here, the departmental policy was 1 minute per question. That has been
more time than people needed for the objective exams from what I have seen for
years.
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