The textbooks should only be used as reference books. The learning happens when there is true involvement, discussion, and inquiry. Disclosure: I'm a textbook...
Hello fellow astronomy educators, A couple months ago I posted some questions about a curriculum I am in the process of developing, and I am hoping again to...
collisions of celestial objects. If you do decide on the above theme I recommend you get a gravity simulator computer program. I use Gravatation Ltd. for the...
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Jun 12, 2004 10:22 pm
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Hi Dennis, Thanks for the suggestion. I used a program such as you described in an introductory astronomy lab (college) a few years back that was quite a bit...
... (snip) ... Because all those that can, have. (More or less-- the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter is a good example of ongoing planetary...
Storrs, Alex
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Jun 16, 2004 6:46 pm
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Hi Alex, Thanks for your reply. I agree with your assessment of question 3 (How do we know if an asteroid is going to hit the earth?) – it is the most...
I disagree that if a student of astronomy is told the textbook is to be used as a reference book, the student will think that reading the book is unimportant....
When I first received this message, I was going to make a long and spirited reply. Here's a brief one instead! To first order—content—the books ARE the...
Michael Zeilik
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Jun 29, 2004 8:27 pm
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When I started reviewing texts my reaction was the same as the initiator's of this thread. But, I was not looking at the texts from a student's prespective. I...
Folks: When I first received this message, I was going to make a long and spirited reply. Here's a brief one instead! To first order—content—the books ARE...
Michael Zeilik
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Jul 13, 2004 2:41 pm
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I want to try giving the ADT as a pre and post test to my introdutory astronomy class this year. The web page for the test indicates that no questions should...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
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Aug 13, 2004 7:48 pm
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... Good! How big of a class? Do not use a subset; there are only 21 questions and using fewer ruins the reliability. You can omit any of the demographic...
Michael Zeilik
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Aug 13, 2004 9:39 pm
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... A class of between 100 and 120. I expect that the overlap between the people who take it the first day and the people who take it at the end of the term...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
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Aug 13, 2004 9:45 pm
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I teach at a community college, where each student's decision about whether or not to enroll is highly volatile. One semester, I gave the ADT on the first day...
... YES! But you can use the results to revise the course. -- Michael Zeilik The Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide, FLAG, has been greatly revised! Check...
Michael Zeilik
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Aug 14, 2004 3:53 pm
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... I have not heard such a reason in many semesters of giving the ADT to about a thousand students. I agree it could happen, but is very rare. I ado not know...
Michael Zeilik
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Aug 14, 2004 3:54 pm
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... if this is a common phenomenon or not. There is a huge enrollment turnover at community colleges, and rarely does one find out why specific students change...
... To add my two cents, I have experienced students dropping my course after taking the pretest on the first day, although I give both the LPCI and the ADT....
Rebecca Lindell
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Aug 16, 2004 6:27 pm
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... You give the LPCI and the ADT the same day? I usually wait till about a week before we hit lunar phases but I have done it both ways. I have the problem...
... Anyone needing 10 response scantrons to utilize the LPCI please contact me. I can provide either information on how to order them, or provide them and scan...
Rebecca Lindell
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Aug 16, 2004 9:24 pm
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... My class periods are 75 minutes, so I more than enough to hit the highlights of the course and give the ADT with no time pressure. I also ask students to...
Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 17, 2004 1:35 am
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From joe: I have used the ADT off and on since its inception but am reconsidering using ... Do NOT use "I don't know'! The research is clear that women will...
Michael Zeilik
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Aug 17, 2004 2:39 pm
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Mike, Out of curiosity, what coop. group activity do you dothe first day of class? Michael Huster Simpson (soon to be) University Redding, CA ...
... It varies. I first ask the students to introduce themselves to their neighbors. There's a stunned silence for about 10 secs (this is never done in large...
Michael Zeilik
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Aug 17, 2004 11:57 pm
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... Reference please. What are students who honestly do not know supposed to do then? They don't have an option. Many of my students have complained about...
... Can you please give specifics on how you assisgn the learning groups based on scores? I'd like to rotate the groups every week. Is that possible with your...
... I basically follow the Minnesota model (Johnson, Johnson, and Smith), in which groups are heterogeneous, instructor-assigned, and remain in place for the...
Michael Zeilik
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Aug 19, 2004 12:52 am
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Is there any consensus on whether static learning groups work "better" than rotating ones? Joe...
Mike or anyone else: Have you ever considered putting the ADT on WebAssign? I'm using WA in all my classes this fall and it seems that, if security isn't an ...
... Beth Hufnagel would probably have the references more immediately on hand than I. Try her at brhufnagel@... She and the other women on the ADT team...
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