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Using MindPoint Quiz Show to Enhance Student Performance
Dennis Beck, a teacher at Lakota Ridge Junior School (Cincinnati, Ohio) was one of the first instructors to use MindPoint™ Quiz Show—a classroom game that captures student attention and reinforces learning.  This new educational product is explicitly designed to work with ExamView question banks. And the best part is that the program tracks students’ performance while they’re having fun. You can review performance data related to learning objectives and use that information to help students reach their potential.   

Dennis describes it in this way:

As a middle school science teacher, I’m constantly searching for new and exciting ways to review material before formally testing students’ knowledge. This past year I was fortunate to discover and use the educational game MindPoint Quiz Show. Capturing every student’s attention while reviewing content is no small task. Quiz Show accomplishes this by quickly engaging students in team play. It focuses their competitive efforts on answering course-related material in an appealing environment.

Team Selection

How The Quiz Show Game Works
Designed to appeal to a wide range of students, Quiz Show is filled with color, sound, and animation to create an atmosphere similar to popular TV quiz games. Used in the team mode, the class is divided into two or three teams that compete against one another. Questions are projected on a screen in the front of the classroom. Team members read them and buzz-in when they believe they have the correct answer. The team is then given a specific, short interval in which to respond before the Master of Ceremonies (a multimedia persona) declares the question open to the other teams. 

Quiz Show can also be played in multiplayer mode by two or three students, or it can be played in single-player mode against the clock or against the computer. Every answer is automatically recorded delineating how each team or individual performs. The results are available in report form for the teacher after the game is complete. The report allows the teacher to identify areas (by topic, objective, etc.) where the class needs further review.

Since Quiz Show works with the eInstruction response pads, you can get students even more involved in the game. They can buzz-in and answer questions using a remote control.

As Dennis Beck puts it:

My students are very interested in the review and enjoy the variation allowed for by the program.  MindPoint Quiz Show helps keep the attention of the students with all available technology.

Typical Question Screen (Team Play Mode)

Assessing Students on Specific State Standards
Quiz Show questions can be created in ExamView or can be drawn directly from existing question banks.  Most of the ExamView question banks supplied with textbooks (there are now 2000 texts with ExamView questions) already include the appropriate state standards. This allows you, as a teacher, to use a series of questions related to the standards.  The resulting game then provides direct information on your students’ performance as it relates to the standards.

Dennis comments:

The program allows for the entry of my standards review material as questions for use in the game show formatted program.  I was very pleased with the results of the Quiz Show program and look forward to continue using it in the future.

Player Performance Report Screen

Home Use of Quiz Show by Students
In addition to having Quiz Show in the classroom, a student “lite” version is available free as a download from www.mindpoint.com.  Now that students have access to this version, you can publish your question banks on the Internet, supply them on a disc, or email the questions to students so that they can play at home.  

Dennis summarizes his experiences with Quiz Show:

This is a great way to grab the attention of my students and review the needed material from the curriculum.

Find out for yourself how to energize your classroom.  Click here to visit www.mindpoint.com and learn more about the program.