The Ticket to Increasing Students’ Concept Retention

Abstract

Classroom assessment techniques have been used by college professors for over 20 years. The authors of this paper developed a new teaching technique, the ticket to retention (TtR), which changes classroom assessment techniques from focusing on evaluating instruction to emphasizing students’ long-term retention of concepts. The results of this mixed methods study include the students’ perspective of the TtR and confirm that students who used the TtR scored higher on short answer questions than those who did not.