TY - JOUR 
A1 - Vidal García, Marta Esmeralda
T1 - Knowledge competition: an entertaining and useful way to review concepts that would enable students to develop other underlying skills
Y1 - 2014
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/3562
AB - Traditional examinations are demotivating for most students and difficult to
implement in practical lessons (mainly based on skills). Therefore, innovative
assessment methods where students play a major role in making the choice of it can
motivate students better than traditional methodologies. Based on Teams-Games-
Tournament (TGT) technique developed by DeVries and Edwards (1973) and DeVries
and Slavin (1978), this paper presents a cooperative learning technique to assess a
course, as an alternative to traditional assessment methods. Students are actively
involved in the decision-making process to choose the continuous assessment criteria. It
fosters group cooperation to achieve common goals as well as healthy competition
among teams. The purpose is to promote knowledge and transfer of learning among
groups, develop cross-curricular skills, motivate and encourage students. Several
techniques proposed by students were implemented in different courses. Most of them
were successful and highly valued by students, who think it is a stimulating way to test
knowledge, creates a positive atmosphere, fosters class participation, has a positive
effect in the students' mood, and makes lessons more interactive as well as interesting,
among many other advantages. As a result, students strongly recommend implementing
this learning technique in other courses.
KW - Knowledge competition
KW - Teams-games-tournament
KW - Review
KW - Concepts
KW - Learning
KW - Enseñanza superior - Europa
KW - Enseñanza superior - Innovaciones
KW - Enseñanza superior
KW - Universidad
LA - spa
PB - Universidad Europea de Madrid
ER -