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If I Quiz Them, They Will Come

By BRAD THOMPSON

In an effort to get students to read their assignments, I began using daily quizzes in one of my courses in the fall of 1997. That strategy has been even more successful than I could have imagined.

I used to ask students in my mass-media-law course about the cases they were supposed to have read before class. When I would ask for a volunteer to recite the...

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