Exam Wrappers

Exam wrappers are short activities that direct students to review their performance (and the instructor's feedback) on an exam with an eye toward adapting their future learning. Exam wrappers ask students three kinds of questions: 

• How did they prepare for the exam? 
• What kind of errors did they make on the exam? 
• What could they do differently next time?

Each of the question types is discussed next. This posting looks at using a new and very interesting tool called "exam wrappers" to enable students to think more carefully about their studying and learning. It is from Chapter 2, Make Exams Worth More Than the Grade, by Marsha C. Lovett in the book, Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning, edited by Matthew Kaplan, Naomi Silver, Danielle LaVaque-Manty, and Deborah Meizlish. Read more...