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DiBattista, David, The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, Volume 35, Number 4, December 2005, pp. 111-131(21)
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The Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) is a new multiple-choice response form that has advantages over more commonly used response techniques. The IF-AT, which is commercially available at reasonable cost and can be used conveniently with large classes, has an answer-until-correct format that provides students with immediate, corrective, item-by-item feedback. Advantages of this learner-centered response form are that it: (a) actively promotes learning; (b) allows students' partial knowledge to be rewarded with partial credit; (c) is strongly preferred by students over other response techniques; and (d) lets instructors more easily maintain the security of multiple choice (MC) items so that they can be reused from one semester to the next. The IF-AT's major shortcoming is that grading must be done manually because it does not yet have a compatible optical scanning device. Helpful suggestions are presented for instructors who may be considering using the IF-AT for the first time.
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