A Systematic Evaluation of the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique

• In Event: Harnessing Technology to Aid Assessment

Abstract

Currently, much research is being conducted on improving teaching methods. However, research is underdeveloped is improving testing formats so that they too can promote student achievement. One way of improving testing could be to incorporate feedback into the testing procedure. This study replicated and extended past research done Epstein, Epstein, & Brosvic’s (2001) by for a testing technique called the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT), which allows test takers to receive immediate feedback on responses during testing. Research was extended by including two new conditions (scantron with feedback and computerized IF-AT). Results show that adding feedback into the scantron produced significantly higher performance then the scantron, IF-AT and CIF-AT on both identical and comparable items on the post-test

Authors

• Whitney Smiley, University of South Carolina

• Tracy E. Zinn, James Madison University