Interesting take on new ways to engage…
Erin Hodgson, Ph.D., associate professor and extension entomologist at Iowa State University came up with the idea.
Part of the appeal of the scratch-off card method is the instant learning. If a participant scratches off the correct answer, a star is revealed. If they select the wrong answer, they see a blank space, and they can then try another choice. As Hodgson writes in JIPM, “By using IFAT cards, participants will always discover the correct answer to every question if they keep trying.” Participants in Hodgson’s extension sessions used the scratch-off cards for a five-question test at the beginning of the session and again for the same five questions (with only the order of the answer choices changed) at the end. She reports that participants showed improved performance on all five of the questions between pre- and post-tests.
