FYI:
On 5 Dec 2011 at 12:42, Jim Sibley wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have many faculty I work with.....that struggle a bit to wrap their heads around TBL...when
> they have traditionally done lots of calculations...and had their students do lots of homework
> calculations.
>
> Larry gave me a bit of a clue...."make sure you ask students to make a decision based on the
> result of the calculation...so they can get very immediate and unambiguous feedback on the
> calculation answer"....that was helpful....but not completely satisfying
>
> Then I bumped into the book "Ranking Exercises for Physics Students".....which had an
> AMAZING IDEA
>
> Get students to do a series of problems (see attached example) then rank order them -
> most-least/highest-lowest/fastest-slowest....then the reporting is about comparing the rank
> order
>
> This has allsorts of advantages...since they get to do multiple calculations...on different
> problems....and they get such clear feedback on ALL their calculations
>
> Nice!
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>
> Jim