By 2017, more than half of the students performed this way.
In 2008, only around 3 out of 20 students performed better on their homework than on the exam. That was the one that quizzed them on material they had not yet learned. They would even ace the very first homework assignment. Many students were doing more poorly on the exam than on the homework leading up to it. But by the late 2010s, “the results got very messy,” says Kang. When technology interferesįor many years, students had improved through each set of questions and did best on the exam. In fact, that’s no longer what tends to happen.
So the students in Glass’s classes should have performed better on each set of questions in the homework series, and then best of all on the exam. But “if you test yourself again and again, you will have better performance in the end,” says co-author Mengxue Kang. If you read about a topic again and again, you’re not likely to remember it very well. Psychologists call it the testing effect. But such repeated quizzes normally aid learning. This might sound like a lot of repetition. They answer similar questions in class a week later and again on the exam. The day before a lesson, students answer homework questions about the upcoming material. Glass gives his students a series of quiz-style online homework assignments. Glass discovered this from analyzing homework and the grades on tests that he gave college students who took his courses from 2008 to 2017. If you instead find and copy the correct answer, you’ll be less likely to remember it in the future. “It will help you do better on the exam,” notes Glass, one of the new study’s authors. He works at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. “Always first generate the answers for yourself,” says psychologist Arnold Glass. Guessing is the better strategy, a new study suggests. Searching online for the answer may get you a better grade on the homework.
A question pops up: Do newborn human babies see the world in black and white? You’re doing homework online for a science class.
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