Paper Title
The Effect of Weekly Quizzes on Iraqi College Students’ Academic Performance

Abstract
The present study aims at investigating the effect of weekly quizzes on Iraqi second year college students’ performance. Most scholars have attempted to provide guidelines in order to achieve positive washback. While some suggest frequent quizzes as a means of positive washback, others oppose the idea. The proponents claim that frequent quizzes stimulate practice and review, give the students more opportunities for feedback and have a positive influence on students’ study time. The opponents, on the other hand, believe that too frequent testing might inhibit of larger units of instructional material and frustrate anxious students, and thus, hinder learning. This study explored whether students taking weekly quizzes performed better in the performance. Sixty students studying in grade two of high school were selected and divided into two groups. One group received weekly quizzes and the other group took only midterm exam. The results indicate that the group with weekly quizzes performed better than the group without quizzes.