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Exam Wrappers are tools for students to examine their test readiness, identify specific strategies to improve readiness and examine how effective those strategies are so adaptations can be made for future exams. Preparation/study techniques can be adapted by instructors. Those listed here are simply suggestions.

Teaching Self-Monitoring Strategies A wrapper is an activity that surrounds an existing assignment or activity and encourages metacognition. For example, wrappers can be used with lectures, homework assignments, or exams. Wrappers require just a few extra minutes of time, but can have a big impact.

Also called test or assignment wrappers, these are brief, low-stakes assignments for students to submit after a test. It helps them review the test in the context of their learning and study own habits.

The Exam Wrapper is a tool to facilitate student reflection after an exam and to promote metacognition as students prepare for the next exam. Students complete the exam wrapper (which is a series of reflective questions) after the exam has been taken and a grade has been received in order to create a new study plan.

A wrapper is an activity that surrounds an existing assignment or activity and encourages metacognition. For example, wrappers can be used with lectures, homework assignments, or exams. Wrappers require just a few extra minutes of time, but can have a big impact.

A common method used in this effort is the “wrapper.” A wrapper is a short form that students complete along with an assignment or exam that focuses on the learning process rather than on the content itself.

Guidelines for using Wrappers In general, wrappers ask students to think about how they prepared for the assignment/exam, what went well, what didn't, and how they might change their study habits for the future.

Abstract: An exam wrapper is a reflective exercise completed after an exam, designed to help foster students' metacognition and self-regulation. Typical exam wrappers ask students how they studied, what they missed and why, and how they would change their study behaviors to improve on the next exam.

Metacognitive strategies empower students to think about their own thinking. This awareness of the learning process enhances their control over their own learning. It also enhances personal capacity for self-regulation and managing one's own motivation for learning.

Exam wrappers prompt students to reflect on three important components to learning: exam preparation (study skills used), types of errors made on exams, and adjustments for future learning (modifications to study habits to better prepare for the next exam).

Exam Wrappers are tools for students to examine their test readiness, identify specific strategies to improve readiness and examine how effective those strategies are so adaptations can be made for future exams. Preparation/study techniques can be adapted by instructors. Those listed here are simply suggestions.

Teaching Self-Monitoring Strategies A wrapper is an activity that surrounds an existing assignment or activity and encourages metacognition. For example, wrappers can be used with lectures, homework assignments, or exams. Wrappers require just a few extra minutes of time, but can have a big impact.

Also called test or assignment wrappers, these are brief, low-stakes assignments for students to submit after a test. It helps them review the test in the context of their learning and study own habits.

The Exam Wrapper is a tool to facilitate student reflection after an exam and to promote metacognition as students prepare for the next exam. Students complete the exam wrapper (which is a series of reflective questions) after the exam has been taken and a grade has been received in order to create a new study plan.

A wrapper is an activity that surrounds an existing assignment or activity and encourages metacognition. For example, wrappers can be used with lectures, homework assignments, or exams. Wrappers require just a few extra minutes of time, but can have a big impact.

A common method used in this effort is the “wrapper.” A wrapper is a short form that students complete along with an assignment or exam that focuses on the learning process rather than on the content itself.

Guidelines for using Wrappers In general, wrappers ask students to think about how they prepared for the assignment/exam, what went well, what didn't, and how they might change their study habits for the future.

Abstract: An exam wrapper is a reflective exercise completed after an exam, designed to help foster students' metacognition and self-regulation. Typical exam wrappers ask students how they studied, what they missed and why, and how they would change their study behaviors to improve on the next exam.

Metacognitive strategies empower students to think about their own thinking. This awareness of the learning process enhances their control over their own learning. It also enhances personal capacity for self-regulation and managing one's own motivation for learning.

Exam wrappers prompt students to reflect on three important components to learning: exam preparation (study skills used), types of errors made on exams, and adjustments for future learning (modifications to study habits to better prepare for the next exam).