Taking intermittent quizzes reduces achievement gaps and enhances online learning, even in highly distracting environments

By Jason C.K. Chan, Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
Zohara Assadipour, Graduate Student in Cognitive Psychology, Iowa State University

Inserting brief quiz questions into an online lecture can boost learning and may reduce racial achievement gaps, even when students are tuning in remotely in a distracting environment.

That’s a main finding of our recent research published in Communications Psychology. With co-authors Dahwi Ahn, Hymnjyot Gill and Karl Szpunar, we present evidence that adding mini-quizzes into an online lecture in…

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