Howard, A. K. T., & Garcia, N. (2025, March), Weekly Quizzes In Lieu of Homework  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi. 10.18260/1-2--54200

\bibitem{asee_peer_54200}
  Howard, A. K. T., \& Garcia, N. (2025, March), \emph{Weekly Quizzes In Lieu of Homework}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi.
  10.18260/1-2--54200

Anna K. T. Howard and Nicholas Garcia.  "Weekly Quizzes In Lieu of Homework".  2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/54200 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_54200}
  Anna K. T. Howard and Nicholas Garcia.
  "Weekly Quizzes In Lieu of Homework".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Southeast Conference , Mississippi State University, Mississippi, 2025, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/54200 Internet.  27 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Homework and class activities help engineering students stay engaged and on track with a given course. Traditionally in Statics at North Carolina State University, homework has been split between those problems auto graded by a computer and more complex problems evaluated by graders and TA’s. Recent research from Ohio Northern University has shown an increase in grades when homework is replaced with weekly quizzes. It should be noted that ONU has smaller classes than NC State, and quizzes were graded each week by faculty. Retakes were also available to students. Our current study investigates whether the results from ONU are replicable at a large university with large numbers of Statics students without any quiz retakes. 

Weekly quizzes have been prepared for Statics which are graded primarily by computer, but free-body diagrams are graded by undergraduate graders. Homework is no longer collected in any form. Although, the prior computer-graded homework quizzes are available as practice, and some of the prior on-paper homework assignments are available as Example Problems. Weekly quizzes are algorithmic and check units for the students. Partial credit is given only for incorrect signs of the correct answer: students must get the problem correct to receive credit. Longer
problems are broken into parts with up to 30 separate questions graded.

Partial data from last fall, published at ASEE in June, suggested that this approach with weekly quizzes might also show higher grades, as did the ONU research. Last fall the practice quizzes were required, but this semester they are completely optional. The quizzes do form a
backstop for the grades on the weekly quizzes: a student who scores 100% on the three practice quizzes for the week is guaranteed at least a 70 on the weekly quiz. The scores on the exams for Fall 2023 will be compared with Fall 2019 when homework was collected (pre-pandemic steady state), with Fall 2021 when homework was collected (post-pandemic), and with Fall 2022 when the computer-graded quizzes were required but on-paper homework was not.
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