Keywords

Collaborative Testing, Content Retention, Nursing Education

 

Authors

  1. Witt, Amy J.
  2. Gerdin, Bethany J.
  3. De Haan, Julie A.
  4. Bergman, Lauren K.

Abstract

Abstract: Nursing faculty look for ways to promote the retention of content so that students can build on that content and apply it to nursing practice. A study was designed to determine differences in content retention between testing collaboratively, which involves students taking an exam collectively within a small group, using an individual notecard, and including written rationale for test answers during collaborative testing. Students who tested collaboratively had significantly higher long-term content retention than students who tested with the other methods.