{"id":292,"date":"2019-10-29T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/?p=292"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:29:38","slug":"retention-following-two-stage-collaborative-exams-depends-on-timing-and-student-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/2019\/10\/retention-following-two-stage-collaborative-exams-depends-on-timing-and-student-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Retention following Two-Stage Collaborative Exams Depends on Timing and Student Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-stage collaborative exams have been shown to improve student test grade performance, but do they improve retention of course material? This month\u2019s interesting read features a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifescied.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1187\/cbe.17-07-0137\">study conducted in an introductory biology course at UBC<\/a> in which researchers measured student retention of course content at different time points following a two-stage collaborative exam. They found greater retention benefits at the longer time period and evidence of differential benefits for low-, mid-, and high-performing students.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke, J.E., Weir, L., Clarkston, B. (2019) Retention following Two-Stage Collaborative Exams Depends on Timing and Student Performance. CBE\u2014Life Sciences Education, Vol. 18, No. 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1187\/cbe.17-07-0137\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1187\/cbe.17-07-0137<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-stage collaborative exams have been shown to improve student test grade performance, but do they improve retention of course material? This month\u2019s interesting read features a study conducted in an introductory biology course at UBC in which researchers measured student retention of course content at different time points following a two-stage collaborative exam. They found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/2019\/10\/retention-following-two-stage-collaborative-exams-depends-on-timing-and-student-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retention following Two-Stage Collaborative Exams Depends on Timing and Student Performance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4534752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-reads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bionews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}