PREP 2011 Web Conference II
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Web-Conference 2: Introduction, background information
Date: Around June 2
Presenters: Jason Aubrey, Dan Flath, Gavin LaRose
Resources
Agenda
- Discussion of the problems that were written for the assignment for this conference
- Discuss papers on assessment/usability
- Discussion of assessment and what makes a good problem, what factors are not conducive to problems usefulness. some heuristics
Conference material
- Discussion of the problems that were written for the assignment for this conference
- Clarify any questions about problem structure
- Discuss problems that are specifically "good" or "bad"
- Go through and critique/comment on problems developed from assignment from first workshop---check code and usability (some error checking, mostly style and quality of problems)
- Discuss papers on assessment/usability
- Discussion of assessment and what makes a good problem, what factors are not conducive to problems usefulness. some heuristics:
- Problems have a clear sense of what they are trying to do (e.g., develop skills, develop understanding, evaluate student understanding, etc.)
- Problems follow Best Practices
- Problems have "nice enough" numbers
- The problems are clean and clear (and well-written)
- The concepts that are being communicated and evaluated are clear
- They have hints and solutions: support for students who are stuck or who lack other support structures
- They are stable and well tested
- From this discussion, develop a rubric for assessing quality (technical and pedagogical) of WeBWorK problems; this is a Wiki page
[Should there be a discussion of different types of problems---fill in the blank, numerical, etc.---as part of this?]
Presenters
Jason, Gavin, Dan
Follow-up
- Revise wiki on good problems to reflect discussion
Assignment for web conference 3
- Continue work on rubric
- Explore NPL and evaluate some number of problems for the model course on which each person is working with the established rubric
- Identify some good problems, or sub-optimal problems with suggestions to improve them, probably based on the rubric. This should also improve the rubric.
- Specifically give 3-5 problems, types of problems or NPL information to look for, e.g.,
- How many problems are available for the Hughes-Hallett calculus text, section 4.3?
- What good problems are available for Stewart section need this?
- What non-calculus courses have NPL problems?
- Can we tell which textbook problems we're finding?
- Review sample model courses that are currently available (are there any?!)
