Nancy Barile has the right idea in using gamification to review for Standardized Testing Week. Instead of intensely trying to hammer the information into her students last minute and stressing everyone out in the process, she makes reviewing fun. In her blog entitled, "Getting in the (State Testing) Game" she describes using a trivia game that gets all of her students involved to review key concepts that they might have shown weakness in during previous testing. Students are in groups but each student must answer one question in a pile of questions before the next student can answer a question. The first team to get through their pile of questions wins. She uses this game through out the year and I definitely feel her strategy follows the intent of gamification perfectly. Students remain engaged in learning and reviewing in a fun and memorable way that will definitely help recall ability when taking a test. Instead of sitting through a boring lecture, students will want to know why they got a question wrong in the game, therefore promoting interest in a topic. Her game is called MCAS and there is a link in her blog in which an example of the game is given for any teachers that want to follow her lead.
Website Used: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/classroom-solutions/2010/10/state-testing-just-one-big-game
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