ABSTRACT

The intention at the beginning of the first trial of this system had been to repeat the experiment with first-year students on the Electricity II course in 1971–72, the main difference being that the self-test questions were to be changed from open-ended questions to ones with a multiple choice of answer. The Electricity I course was dropped and the name of the Electricity II course was changed to “Electrical Circuits”. The lecturer on the course had indicated that the knowledge content of the two courses was independent, and it was thought that dropping the Electricity I course would not affect progress and performance on the Electrical Circuits course, although there was some disagreement on this point. The chapter analyses the results obtained from the application of the system to the Electrical Circuits course in 1971–72.