Youngjoo,
Thank you for your question. Since I was the person who
created that diagram, let me try to provide some answers.
First, that diagram is not the result of a formal, empirical study.
It is based on my own personal observations of lots of teachers using and
not using small groups, and using small groups in different
ways.
Second, the Y axis, referring to the quality of student learning, does
not refer to grades but actually refers to both the quantity and quality
of student learning.
The
quality of student learning refers to such things as:
- If students learn some factual information, that is learning but it
has relatively low quality.
- If they learn how to USE their understanding to solve problems, that
is higher quality learning.
- If they learn all of that and learn how to plan and continue their
own learning about this subject after the course is over, that is even
higher quality learning.
The
quantity of student learning primarily refers to the percentage of
students who achieve a certain quality of learning. For example:
- If only 10% of the students achieve high quality learning, that is
low (not good).
- If 50% of the students achieve high quality learning, that is much
better.
- If 80% of the students achieve high quality learning, that is even
better (very good).
I hope that helps explain the idea behind that diagram.
Dee Fink
At 11:06 AM 6/21/2008, Youngjoo Cho wrote:
Hello!
I have some questions for the figure1.2 on the page 9 in the first
part by Fink
of the book " Team-Based Learning ".
- It's not clear to me about the figure's specific
foundation. For example,
by what kind of statistic method, whom, how, when, where... etc.
- And I need some more concrete explain regarding
" Quality of Student
Learning " on its Y axis of figure 1.2. What does the word
" Quality " mean ?
Does that say how high grade students got ( other words, students'
deepen
understanding on the key concept ) or how much students satisfied
for the
TBL learning ? ( English is not my first language, so,
sometimes, it is
difficult to understand the common words in the context. )
Expecting your kind tip for my questions.
Youngjoo
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