questions – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

So what exactly are we testing?

mglessmer — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:25:43 +0000

Asking the right questions is really difficult. Last week, a paper by Gläser and Riegler was presented in the journal club at my work (can’t find it online yet, so can’t link to it, sorry!). Even though the paper itself dealt with the effectiveness of so-called “Brückenkurse” (i.e. 2-week courses that are offered to incoming […]

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Should we ask or should we tell?

mglessmer — Sat, 31 May 2014 04:28:42 +0000

Article by Freeman et al., 2014, “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics”. Following up on the difficulties in asking good questions described yesterday, I’m today presenting an article on the topic “should we ask or should we tell?”. Spoiler alert – the title says it all: “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, […]

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On asking questions

mglessmer — Fri, 30 May 2014 04:41:21 +0000

How do you ask questions that really make students think, and ultimately understand? I’ve only been working at a center for teaching and learning for half a year, but still my thinking about teaching has completely transformed, and still is transforming. Which is actually really exciting! :-) This morning, prompted by Maryellen Weimer’s post on […]

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How to pose questions for voting card concept tests (post 2/3)

mglessmer — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:39:28 +0000

Different ways of posing questions for concept tests are being presented here Concept tests using voting cards have been presented in this post. Here, I want to talk about different types of questions that one could imagine using for this method. 1) Classical multiple choice In the classical multiple choice version, for each question four […]

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A, B, C or D?

mglessmer — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:03:49 +0000

Voting cards. A low-tech concept test tool, enhancing student engagement and participation. (Post 1/3) Voting cards are a tool that I learned about from Al Trujillo at the workshop “teaching oceanography” in San Francisco in 2013. Basically, voting cards are a low-tech clicker version: A sheet of paper is divided into four quarters, each quarter […]

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