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March 2004

An Electronic Leap: Quizzes on the Web
By Jan D. Andersen, California State University, Sacramento jan.andersen@csus.edu

Like Mark Twain’s famous Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, many teachers are weighed down with the thoughts, traditions, and technologies of the past, unable to make that giant electronic leap, even though their colleges and universities have invested much to provide the necessary technology. Four years ago I leaped and changed my approach to quizzing. I eliminated all in-class quizzes. I stopped using quizzes as summative assessments and starting using them to provide students a management tool for keeping up with the assigned readings.

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