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Motivating Students with a Quiz
Bored with the common practice of giving students a reading quiz to test whether they have completed a reading assignment, Westminster English teacher Tim Quinn’96 and moral philosophy teacher Todd Eckerson developed a “collaborative quiz” that students work on together in class and for which they receive a common grade. An article about the new quiz, titled “Motivating Students to Read with Collaborative Reading Quizzes,” appears in the September 2010 issue of the English Journal, published by the National Council of Teachers of English. The theme for the issue is “motivating students.”
The collaborative quiz ensures that students have carefully read an assignment and provides an opportunity for dynamic classroom discussion. It is adaptable to a variety of formats and “shifts the focus from the teacher to the student while also engaging the class more completely.”
“Todd and I just happened to have a lot of success with the type of quiz described in the essay, and we thought it was an idea we should share,” said Tim.
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