A fourth study of the impact of classroom assessment practices on students and their learning in the context of the classroom was undertaken by Bangert-Drowns, Kulik, and Kulik (1991), who investigated the effects of frequent classroom testing.
A hyphen (-) is a punctuation mark used to join the separate parts of a compound word. A hyphen is a joiner. A hyphen is used to join the words of a compound adjective (e.g., five-page document), to join the words of compound noun (e.g., cooking-oil), and to join a prefix to a word (e.g., re-examine).
Rule 4. Hyphens are often used to tell the ages of people and things. A handy rule, whether writing about years, months, or any other period of time, is to use hyphens unless the period of time (years, months, weeks, days) is written in plural form: