Assessment as a Learning Opportunity

Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments supports learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide feedback for application on a future assessment attempt. Current research has not thoroughly investigated the student impacts or opinions of this combined strategy. In this study, students took a second attempt 46% of the time, scoring an average 10.1% higher on their second attempt. Over 60% of students who failed their first attempt completed a second attempt. Students perceived the feedback as useful in preparation to complete a second attempt. Future research includes investigating why some students do not make a second quiz attempts and in what ways feedback is used (or not). This study demonstrates effectiveness of this feedforward-multiple attempts strategy in multiple introductory science courses taught fully online.