{"id":4398,"date":"2018-08-07T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:14:42","slug":"using-open-note-quizzes-to-encourage-writing-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/using-open-note-quizzes-to-encourage-writing-and-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Open-Note Quizzes to Facilitate Listening, Encoding and Retrieval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Open-note quizzes may seem like a practice too juvenile for university students, but consider how the open-note quiz facilitates student learning practices that faculty are fond of:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">stronger listening skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">student elaboration when writing\/encoding\u2014which can facilitate future retrieval<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">student retrieval of a memory that involves multiple \u201cpaved roads\u201d through the brain (the \u201cpaved road\u201d of hand to paper, of visual-perception processes, of letter and symbol formation and arrangement on the page)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">stronger note-taking (without good notes, the student doesn\u2019t do well on the open-notes quiz)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Example of Open-Notes Quizzes Syllabus Statement (feel free to copy or modify):\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4401 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2018\/08\/icons8-cursor-128.png?resize=48%2C48&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Why We Will Have Open Notes Quizzes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">I want to know that you\u2019re learning what we go over in class, and one of the best ones to encourage this is for me to use open notes quizzes. This does a number of things. It helps you become a stronger listener, because the quality of your notes determines how well you will do later on the quizzes or tests. It also encourages you to learn the material better when you first hear it, because you usually write in <em>your own words<\/em> what you are hearing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open-note quizzes may seem like a practice too juvenile for university students, but consider how the open-note quiz encourages several practices that faculty are fond of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20749,"url":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/cfc\/blog\/2022\/03\/30\/small-teaching-chapter-1-retrieving\/","url_meta":{"origin":4398,"position":0},"title":"Small Teaching: Retrieving","author":"John Hawes","date":"March 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Small Teaching\u00a0by J.M. 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