Abstract
The research studied the effectiveness of a three-stage Seamless Learning Model with Enhanced Web-Quizzing based on the intensive use of sets of quizzes created in different web-based quiz generators. The findings revealed that continuous testing using diagnostic, formative, benchmark and summative quizzes, administered at the three stages - familiarisation, formation and assessment, applying such features of seamless learning as learning in various contexts, ubiquitous access to digital learning resources and quizzes, combination of teacher-guided learning, self-directed and collaborative learning, and switching between various learning activities can be an efficient teaching technique in higher education having positive effect on academic performance, motivation, learners’ approaches to studying and course engagement. The testing effect was investigated on the summative tests taken at the end of the three different academic courses. The results showed that online quizzes applied primarily as learning tools with the emphasis on information retrieval and retention resulted in the higher achievements of the experimental group students. The survey conducted with Biggs’s Revised Two-Factor Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F) showed the changes in the learners’ motives and approaches to studying revealed in students’ active participation in in-class and out-of-class activities, mastering of the material through understanding rather than mechanical memorizing, the search for additional information and increased attendance. The engagement of the experimental group students in the new quiz-enhanced settings was examined focusing on emotional, skills, participation and performance engagement aspects.
Highlights
The challenges that the world educational community faces in the pandemic time make us find an efficient methodology that will help to cope with the arisen difficulties and transform progressively the existing learning methods into the sustainable practice of seamless learning
The results of the independent-samples t-tests of the achievement scores of both experimental and control groups on the final tests on English language course, Child and Educational Psychology course and Civil law course are given in Table 1, Table 2 and Table 3 correspondingly
In our research we are in alignment with the findings of the recent studies conducted by a number of scholars, in particular, we verified the testing effect of enhanced web quizzing leading to improving understanding and active learning [46], [47], studied motivational processes and the role of the immediate feedback in increasing learner engagement and students’ positive attitude towards tests [48], [30], [49], [50], estimated a positive effect of online testing on the academic performance and increasing students’ achievement [51], [52], witnessed a correlation between the scores obtained on formative tests and the final summative examinations [51], [53]
Summary
The challenges that the world educational community faces in the pandemic time make us find an efficient methodology that will help to cope with the arisen difficulties and transform progressively the existing learning methods into the sustainable practice of seamless learning. In this vein, the potential of educational web quizzing tools has to be investigated and productively exploited. The importance of new common cloud computing services cannot be overestimated nowadays In education, their value is supposed to grow to $25.36 billion by 2021, with an annual growth rate of over 25% [1]. The problem of harnessing the power of cloud computing for teaching purposes is widely studied nowadays [2]–[5], etc
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