Dive Brief:

• Quizzes at the beginning of every class instead of midterms or a final improve attendance and overall student performance, a new report says.
• Researchers found that this phenomenon was particularly strong in students from lower-income households.
• In the study, the quizzes were short and personalized, with one of the eight questions often a question from another quiz that the student got wrong.

Dive Insight:

These findings have real potential to improve class attendance, student performance and the use of technology in classrooms. (The students took the quizzes on their laptops, which made it possible to tailor the questions.) One professor who taught the class that was studied says students hated it at first, but he has an explanation: "For the first few weeks, every time their friends went out drinking, they couldn’t go; they had yet another test the next day."