摘要：An interesting research question in light of recent technological developments is an
investigation of the relationship between the time remaining to complete online quizzes and quiz
scores. The data consist of over 4,000 individual quiz scores for six sections of Financial
Management at The University of North Florida taught between the Summer of 2004 and the
Summer of 2005. Over 50% of the time, students take online quizzes when they have less than
10% of the total time allocated for the quiz remaining. Moreover, students reduce the time
available to them for later quizzes as the semester progresses. The most successful students take
the quizzes shortly after the material has been covered in class. Regression analysis reveals a
strong positive relationship between the time remaining until the quiz deadline and the quiz
score. For every additional 10% of the total time available to take a quiz, the quiz score increases
by approximately 1.1 points, on average. Also, students perform better for higher number
quizzes, particularly if they allow themselves a large amount of time to take the quiz. In addition,
students with either a low previous average or a failing average continue to perform poorly,
particularly if they allow themselves relatively little time to complete a quiz. Fourth, the
relationship between the previous amount of time students budgeted to take a quiz and the
current quiz score is positive and marginally significant. However, students who budgeted less
time for quizzes early in the semester benefit on the last quiz by earning a higher quiz score. This
is particularly true for students who do not allow themselves a lot of time to take the current
quiz. Lastly, students who allow themselves the least amount of time to take a quiz could
increase their quiz scores by about 12 points for every additional percentage point of available
time they budget for themselves to take the quiz. The results reported here are interesting not
only for Financial Management courses at The University of North Florida, but offer some
interesting implications for Financial Management courses across the country and for projects in
any other class.
关键词：Online Quiz, Financial Management, Time, Student Performance
