Post-exam Reviews: Turning Wrong Answers Into Learning Moments

Test-review strategies can help students learn material before an exam, but do students learn from their errors after the tests are returned to them? Grounded in metacognitive principles of reflective practice, a post-exam review enables students to analyze the reasons why they performed as they did on an exam as part of an effort to regular their own path of self-directed learning for future improvement (Owens, 2019). This article, building on prior research about improving test review and recall, shares information from two courses on using a test autopsy as a self-regulated learning approach to prepare students better for tests and direct them toward their own learning