After struggling for years with the failure of students to dedicate
time for RAT preparation (readings & online lectures), last
semester I experimented with splitting the RAT for each module
into 2 pieces. Each of these 1/2 RATs took only 1/2 of a class
and there were 10 of these shorter RATs during the semester
instead of one for each of my 5 modules.
I was pleased with the results: iRAT scores increased by about
20% and tRAT scores by about 10%. I got no push back on my
student evaluations about too much testing.
Rich Woodward
On 17 Jan 2014 at 20:50, Jackson, John Mark wrote:
> I typically give online lectures rather than readings, but I agree in principle with Jim...I pared down my lectures to the "juiciest" parts to put them into more manageable sizes for the students and that seems to help them focus on the most important things. I will typically take some of the material I delete and move it into the discussion during application or RAT. Seems the same thing would be true for readings.
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> From: <Sibley>, James Edward <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Reply-To: "Sibley, James Edward" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Date: Friday, January 17, 2014 2:38 PM
> To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Subject: Re: Reading assignment
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> Hi
>
> I don't have hard numbers...but do know it is more in medicine then in some other disciplines
>
> In engineering we assign 30-40 pages for two week modules....we started TBL (10 years ago) with assigning 70-80 pages....but it seemed student devoted a fixed amount of time to reading and just stopped where ever they were....now with fewer pages....they will actually seem to want to understand them and will drop into office hours to ask questions
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> I have heard numbers like 80-100 pages is OK in med school
>
> Bottom line....I would encourage to make the reads as pithy, short and focused as possible....you can assign lots of pages but give students a detailed reading guide that provides specific directions on what to pay attention to...and what to skip....lets us have bigger total page counts....with smaller focused student effort
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> Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:54 PM
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> Subject: Reading assignment
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> Hello members,
> I am looking for suggestions on what would be considered a "reasonable" number
> of pages (reading material) per hour of class meeting in the area of medicine.
> Thank you!!
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