Teaching Tip: Create effective pre-exam reviews

March 3, 2015

University Relations

Many classes have an exam scheduled around the middle of the term. Having a review session before an exam can be a good way to reinforce the main ideas that you’re trying to get across to your students. Although cramming for exams does not promote good practices for long-term learning, studies do show that having some kind of review before an exam can improve test scores. Students may expect you to tell them exactly what will be on the exam. But the review should be conducted in a way so that it becomes obvious to the student what he thinks he knows and what he might have missed during lectures, readings and discussions.

Read the full Teaching Tip at iTeachU (http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/tt-examreview) for more ideas about creating active and interactive strategies for exam review.

— Teaching Tip by Heidi Olson, UAF eLearning Learning & Design Coordinator