Scaffolding provided in terms of how to come up with material for good questions. The above handout (a blank version was also provided) encourages students to choose topics within their Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotsky), identify misconceptions or things they don’t understand and devise questions with a realistic context. Students got around 45 mins for this activity
We provided screencasts online to cover details of signing up, logging in, creating questions, finding questions to answer These are now hosted on the PW site. Creating most popular, viewed 170 times (not necessarily all from the 1A course) Assessment set due 9 days later
We provided screencasts online to cover details of signing up, logging in, creating questions, finding questions to answer These are now hosted on the PW site. Creating most popular, viewed 170 times (not necessarily all from the 1A course) Assessment set due 9 days later
Uptake for assessment done in course
Ross – placeholder for now, to be updated with accurate graphs after 14 th Dec exam
This is typical of questions submitted by the highest performing students Focussed on quantitative problemsolving * Amusing context * Great care and attention with diags and maths The 4 images show question solutions sketch Solution maths Comment and author’s response.
Aside from this being a very creative question, with a great diagram, and a good spread of answers it is also a nice example of peer-tutoring The author wrote the question and got the calculation wrong in the first version of the question This was picked up on, and corrected by, another student the same evening, and the version of the question replaced with the peer’s correct explanation We also placed one of the student generated questions on the exam (not this one).
This was picked up on, and corrected by, another student the same evening, and the version of the question replaced with the peer’s correct explanation
Some positives
Ross – I have just pasted in sample positive and negative comments here from the survey, feel free to summarise or change if you think more appropriate.
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