This 8 page paper is an example paper for a research proposal based on the premise that the pop quiz offers no viable or reliable benefit to the student or the teacher. Current research is cited from text and quoted. Research and methodology is exampled, as well. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the concept of pop quizzes. Firstly, many educators maintain that the pop quiz is an adequate learning tool for the student in order for the student to seriously gauge whether
they are grasping the concepts presented. Yet, another camp believes that the pop quiz is not so much a gauge of the students knowledge, but rather a diagnostic tool for
the teacher in order to determine whether he/she has been effective in presenting the material. Both points of view seem a bit convoluted and so it can be stated that
there is yet another way of looking at pop quizzes: their validity at all. Therefore, there should be a call for research to determine the practicality of continued use of
the pop quiz as it relates to the overall grade for the quarter or semester. The implications to this type of research could amount to a total change of perspective
in the way subjects are presented, planned, classes structured and taught. Consider the amount of immediate stress the pop quiz places a student under. One must stop to ask what
the overall and encompassing goal is. For example, is the goal to see how well the student performs under stressful situations? Or is the goal to see how much of
the material presented has been sufficiently saturated and incorporated into the students base of knowledge? Most educators would readily state that the real reason would be the latter, yet it
should be submitted that a pop quiz does not test what a student actually knows, because the climate is not conducive to quiet, logical thought processes. Rather, the student, more
than likely, experiences something akin to the fight or flight response and is likely to throw down the first answer that comes to mind, or worse yet, spend a good