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Facilitating TBL – tools to succeed: readiness assurance tests

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Facilitating TBL - tools to succeed: readiness assurance tests

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Athlone Institute of Technology

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Teaching & Learning

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Accessibility and Inclusion, Digital Learning, Teaching and Learning Practice

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A resource highlighting the potential of digital technologies to support Readiness Assurance Tests in team-based learning (TBL).

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The traditional approach to the roll out of the Individual Readiness Assurance test is a “paper and pen” approach. This can result in reams of paper being used (question sheets and answer forms all need to be printed). An obvious benefit of students having access to their own devices in college is that these can be used for the Readiness Assurance Test phase and the use of paper can be reduced. Quizzing tools such as Moodle Quiz, MS Forms, Turning Technologies and Vevox can reduce the reliance on paper. But apart from reduced paper usage what are some of the other benefits that digital technologies provide? This resource provides an overview of these benefits.

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Athlone Institute of Technology (2021). Facilitating tbl – tools to succeed: readiness assurance tests. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/facilitating-tbl-tools-to-succeed-readiness-assurance-tests/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).

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URL: https://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3581