"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
02/06/2016 at 21:05 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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I need to study this and figure out how to apply it to my 7th Graders...
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/06/2016 at 21:19 |
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*Remembers being in middle school.*
*shudders*
*curls into a ball and begins weeping profusely*
There is no hope. May [insert deity] have mercy upon you!
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
02/06/2016 at 21:26 |
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Dude: you didn’t have me as your teacher.
I didn’t have me as my teacher.
There can be pockets of hope.
Middle school and high school were the worst years of my life. Math was the worst of all. Now I teach math. Can you say, “Irony?”
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ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/06/2016 at 22:04 |
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I am happy I survived those years. And I never, ever want to have to relive them.
DrJohannVegas
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/06/2016 at 22:59 |
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There’s a lot in here, but I’ll touch on a few points.
An interesting research design, even beyond the interesting idea of an optional final.
Loss aversion, as well as other concepts from behavioral economics, lead people to do interesting things.
Dan Ariely is involved with a lot of interesting studies. I used one of his TED talks as optional extra material in a class I taught recently: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_arie…
As to applying it in the classroom: There are really tough decisions to be made when/if the group of students who chose one path (the quizzes, for instance) do significantly better or worse than the others. The more assessment options one introduces into the course grade, the more difficult it becomes to establish parity across those assessments, to ensure that it’s students’ performances, not assessment choices, which shapes grade outcomes.
DiExMachina
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/06/2016 at 23:03 |
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Am I the only one who sang that title in the dr zaius song from the Simpson's?
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> DrJohannVegas
02/06/2016 at 23:27 |
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All good stuff to consider.
At my teaching level — the other end of the spectrum from yours, obviously, but perhaps not so much maturity-wise — it’s way less about the grades and more about tricking them into doing one more arithmetic problem and meaning it. I’d be inclined to do this experiment, oriented in the direction that got better results, and then spring the concept of a bonus on them late in the term for taking the final anyway. This rewards the students who’ve ostensibly been working harder with an unexpected bonus opportunity.
I have always been convinced that at the university level, professors award whatever grade they feel like awarding, influenced only in part by what sort of work you do, and much more by how artfully you kiss the professor’s ass.