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Makale Özeti:
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The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a collaborative graded home assignment on
undergraduate students` performance in the final examination semester test. Seventy one students of
a department of education sciences in early childhood collaborated in groups of three to six and
conducted an assignment for a course in preschool education. They presented their assignment in
class during the semester in order to be graded and take feedback. The final examination test was
divided in seven parts, relevant to their assignment topics. We examined if students` score in the
part of the test which was relevant to their home assignment topic was higher compared to the other
parts of the test and also if it was higher compared to the other students` score, who conducted
assignments on different topics. The results showed that students performed very well on the part of
the test which was relevant to their home assignment. They also scored higher mean marks on the
same parts as well, in most of the cases (five to seven), compared to their colleagues, who conducted
home assignments on different topics. However, very few statistically significant differences were
found.
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