Appropriate, productive interaction and behavior with other people
Social
Asking the class to raise their hands in response to some general questions; then venturing questions into more opinionated questions; finally focusing in on course specific material for questions
Class survey
Students pair off with their neighbor and compare lecture notes
Pair and compare
Examples of this mode include silent reading or quiet reflection
Reading mode
Measuring memory based on fact retrieval via terms and symbols; can have a word bank
Completion (fill in the blank)
Demonstration of appropriate emotions and affect
Affective
Giving the class a list of specific requirements and tell them to move about the room seeking fellow student s who meet each one; one student for each 'requirement'
Scavenger Hunt
Students solve a clinical situation or issue based on your minilecture; information can be presented on board and give the students 1-3 minutes to find the solution
Solve a problem
Enhance attention through active listening through use of effective self-regulated learning activities
Listening mode
Can utilize multiple choice answers; matching items via columns
Matching
Thinking about facts, terms, concepts, principles, ideas, relationships, patterns, and conclusions
Cognitive
Have students share the same type of self-introductions with a neighbor; then the second part of the task is where each partner introduces his/her partner with the class
Three-step interviews
Provide a pop-question with various answers via white board or tangible copy; allow students to work in groups or individually
Multiple-choice item
Allowing students to speak when given the change during lectures; speaking enhancing overall active listening skills
Speaking mode
This type of test measure avoids diverting knowledgeable students away from the correct response and cluing a poorly prepared student toward the correct response
Multiple choice
Decision making that takes into account the moral implications and repercussions of each reasonable option
Ethical
Make a four by four table with different requirements in each box and give one copy of the table to each student; each student needs to fill in the box with the correct requirement; first to BINGO wins
Human bingo
Provide students a short excerpt to review; allow to work in pairs to apply the minilecture content into a realistic, problematic situation
Quick case study
Writing mode
This type of test is the least used, least known, and yet statistically strongest object test
True/false
Physical performance; may involve eye-hand coordination
Psychomotor
Give each student a sheet of paper with 6 circles ranging from small to large; students write their names in the center and the names of groups in which they identify the most strongly with (e.g., hobbies, location); students work around the classroom to identify most/least similarities
"The Circles of ___"
Play music and have the students get out of their seats and stretch
Seventh-inning stretch
Ensuring pairing material with visuals whenever possible to facilitate learning, memory, and retrieval
Visual mode
This typically tests recall using open-ended responses
Short answer