The Original Three Card Match Activity
The best alternative to testing is demonstration of knowledge. Whenever possible, have students do a project, write a paper, do an analysis, and/or apply knowledge learned. Here’s a fun and effective teaching strategy for quizzing students.
Three Card Match: Peer Tutor or Peer Quiz
Materials:
- Matching cards from a Three Card Match game
- A Quarter (coin)
Instructions:
- Pair up students. (Matching ability is not necessary and may be less successful.)
- Allow students to peer practice by matching the cards before the “quiz.”
- Students MUST ensure each one of their pair knows how to match all the cards.
- Instruct students that once a pair of students is confident that they can match the cards each on their own, they should notify you that they are ready for the quiz.
- Have the pair call heads or tails.
- Flip a coin.
- The person who calls tails takes the quiz.
- That student has to match the cards by himself/herself on-the-spot for you to see.
- Both students get the same quiz grade
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