The Effect of Quiz Frequency on Course Performance and Its Relationship with Class Attendance

To investigate the effect of quiz frequency on the course performance of Iranian university students of English, the mean scores of five groups of subjects were compared using a balanced one-way ANOVA procedure. Analyses revealed that quizzes significantly improve course performance. With some excep...

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Main Author: Abbas-Ali Zarei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2008-02-01
Series:Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:http://jal.iaut.ac.ir/article_524182_9cd5e3425a12a260d58539aa2d2d9d3b.pdf
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Summary:To investigate the effect of quiz frequency on the course performance of Iranian university students of English, the mean scores of five groups of subjects were compared using a balanced one-way ANOVA procedure. Analyses revealed that quizzes significantly improve course performance. With some exceptions, it was also found that the more frequently the subjects were quizzed, the better their course performance became. To study the relationship between quizzes and class attendance, the absences of the same five groups of subjects were regularly checked and compared using the Chi-square procedure. Results showed that there is an inverse relationship between quiz frequency and the number of absences from class.
ISSN:2008-8434
2538-1695