Howdy all! My thinking on this depends on WHY you'd want students to get out the netbooks. I think one really compelling reason to get out the netbooks is...
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Kristen Larson
kris_lars
Aug 4, 2011 5:48 am
Greetings, Thanks to Elizabeth for pointing us in the direction of AstroImageJ! I think that AstroImageJ might be the best choice for my course. I have added...
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Constance Walker
astro_knome
Aug 4, 2011 6:10 pm
Please share this information with science educators in your area and scientists working with science educators. If you have access to an appropriate listserv,...
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larry_ovall
Aug 4, 2011 6:10 pm
If you teach Astro 101 online AND use Lecture-Tutorials book by Prather, etal, just curious which ones you include in your course? I am aware that everyone is...
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Brissenden, Gina L - ...
glbrisse@...
Aug 5, 2011 6:12 am
Hi All, If you're interested in moving to Texas (or live there already), and you're interested in creating content for an online homework system (and dealing...
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impey_chris
Aug 5, 2011 6:16 am
I would like to announce, and encourage you to try out, a new astronomy resource for non-science majors or more generally for informal learners. It is built...
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Melissa N. Hayes-Gehrke
mhayesge@...
Aug 8, 2011 4:10 pm
I started out using most of the LTs, but that's just way too much for one semester. Even so, it was useful for deciding which ones I like the most and find...
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waiferx
Aug 8, 2011 4:41 pm
Speaking of lecture-tutorials, here are a few I've written up over the years for topics not already covered: First-day "Astronomy in the Marketplace" activity,...
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waiferx
Aug 9, 2011 5:02 am
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." --L. P. Hartley ===== Hello fellow astronomy educators, With the new academic year just...
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Robin Byrne
rlbyrne2
Aug 9, 2011 3:24 pm
As part of our reaccreditation process, we have chosen various teaching strategies to be implemented over the course of 3 years. This year's theme is active...
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Douglas K Duncan
valentinozip...
Aug 9, 2011 3:25 pm
Remember that Colorado Ph. D. student Colin Wallace, working with Ed Prather, developed new, excellent tutorials on cosmology. I strongly encourage you to...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 9, 2011 3:54 pm
I think this sounds like a fantastic idea. Lecture notes are, to me, a big deal. I used to simply make them available to students to download for themselves....
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Colin S Wallace
wallacc_pi
Aug 9, 2011 10:46 pm
For those of you that are interested in the new cosmology lecture-tutorials, they are now posted on the CAE website: ...
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Tony George
triastro2000
Aug 10, 2011 12:35 am
Collin and others who helped produce these new lecture-tutorials, thank you very much. They look to be very well done and I'm looking forward to incorporating...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 10, 2011 4:46 pm
Multiple-choice questions are, to me, a necessary evil. Among other problems, they are limited because 1) guessing is viable, and 2) they are look-up-able...
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Jerry Fuller
jfuller@...
Aug 10, 2011 5:32 pm
I agree that this is a superior MC question. It is also convenient for use with classroom response systems or on quizzes/tests with small numbers of students....
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David Wittman
dwittman@...
Aug 10, 2011 5:48 pm
Hi Christopher, I disagree with the assumption that MC questions can't probe higher levels of understanding. Just ask them to interpret hypothetical or...
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Castle, Karen
kgc023
Aug 10, 2011 6:18 pm
Hi, I don't see that multiple choice need to be low on Bloom's. It just depends on the reasoning and knowledge needed to get to an answer. If a person wants...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 10, 2011 6:19 pm
Great feedback David, thank you! Sorry, though, I don't agree. It's not that MC questions can't probe higher orders of thinking. It's just common practice...
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Stephanie J. Slater
sslaterwyo@...
Aug 10, 2011 8:17 pm
So, there has certainly been a lot of research on the construction of multiple choice items, and there's been a lot of material written that synthesizes that...
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Matt Bobrowsky
bobrowsky450
Aug 10, 2011 8:59 pm
Christopher, I like that kind of question and, regardless where you think MC questions fall in Bloom's taxonomy, the use of questions like the one you...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 10, 2011 9:49 pm
Thanks Matt, comments *** below From: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Matt Bobrowsky (1) "If a ball is launched and escapes the Earth's gravitational...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 11, 2011 12:19 am
Thanks Stephanie; comments below *** Christopher J. Wood Instructor Physics/Astronomy Schoolcraft College ________________________________ Stephanie Slater...
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Alan Gibson
fziksman
Aug 11, 2011 12:59 am
Hi Just tossing in my 2¢ worth. I think the question would be very confusing for anyone that had taken a high school physics course....
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Stephanie J. Slater
sslaterwyo@...
Aug 11, 2011 1:49 am
Hi everyone, Several have sent emails over the summer asking for a writeable version of the TOASt. By the time I get my email under enough control to answer ...
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David Wittman
dwittman@...
Aug 11, 2011 4:42 pm
I agree, your question needs to be parsed more carefully. But I disagree on that being a good thing! We should focus on probing students' mental models more...
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Alvidrez, Richard F (...
dad90032
Aug 11, 2011 4:42 pm
This is a good question. There has been some research on these types of questions and the use of them is discouraged for children. The issue here is that you...
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Pauline Barmby
pbarmby@...
Aug 11, 2011 6:53 pm
As a follow-up to the recent discussion on multiple-choice tests, here are a couple of "handbooks" that I've found to be useful: ...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 11, 2011 6:54 pm
I think the trend towards less parsing is already too great. More parsing means more mental stimulus. If I mis-understood your point, I apologize... maybe I...
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Christopher J. Wood
xinijones
Aug 11, 2011 6:54 pm
Right. Good point. Stephanie brought this up as well. Definitely food for thought. I always say every class, including astronomy, is a reading and writing...
