boondoggle is a scheme intended to fool (i.e. bamboozle, hornswoggle, hoodwink - other words you may have heard which are very similar in meaning) people into believing that all is well, that a dire situation is in fact under control. In this vein, the term government boondoggle is rather redundant.
If you are a visual learner, you learn by reading or seeing pictures. You understand and remember things by sight. You can picture what you are learning in your head, and you learn best by using methods that are primarily visual. You like to see what you are learning.
1 Reading Quiz-Clearly, this is one way to coerce students to read assigned material! 2  Active learning depends upon students coming to class prepared. 3  The reading quiz can also be used as an effective measure of student comprehension of the readings (so that you may gauge their level of sophistication as readers).