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...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 13, 2004 9:39 pm
... 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...
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Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
Aug 13, 2004 9:45 pm
... 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...
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Vakil, David
davidvakil
Aug 13, 2004 11:37 pm
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...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 14, 2004 3:53 pm
... 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...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 14, 2004 3:54 pm
... 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...
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Joe
betapict
Aug 16, 2004 3:59 pm
... 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...
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Rebecca Lindell
rlindel@...
Aug 16, 2004 6:27 pm
... 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....
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Joe
betapict
Aug 16, 2004 8:59 pm
... 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...
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Rebecca Lindell
rlindel@...
Aug 16, 2004 9:24 pm
... 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...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 17, 2004 1:35 am
... 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...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 17, 2004 2:39 pm
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...
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Michael Huster
mehuster
Aug 17, 2004 7:39 pm
Mike, Out of curiosity, what coop. group activity do you dothe first day of class? Michael Huster Simpson (soon to be) University Redding, CA ...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 17, 2004 11:57 pm
... 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...
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Joe
betapict
Aug 17, 2004 11:57 pm
... 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...
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Joe
betapict
Aug 17, 2004 11:58 pm
... 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...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 19, 2004 12:52 am
... I basically follow the Minnesota model (Johnson, Johnson, and Smith), in which groups are heterogeneous, instructor-assigned, and remain in place for the...
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Joe
betapict
Aug 19, 2004 12:54 am
Is there any consensus on whether static learning groups work "better" than rotating ones? Joe...
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Joe
betapict
Aug 19, 2004 12:55 am
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 ...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 22, 2004 10:45 pm
... 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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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Aug 22, 2004 10:45 pm
... Yes. Check these references and try this link: A common misconception about cooperative learning teams is that the ³best² student dominates, while the...
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Rebecca Lindell
rlindel@...
Aug 22, 2004 10:48 pm
... First off, I arrange the students into groups of four based on their pretests scores, 1 high, 1 low and 2 midlevel scores. I try to have each group to...
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David Hudgins
dhudgins1944
Aug 23, 2004 5:30 pm
Tim Slater has a nice article in the current The Physics Teacher ("Stellar Inquery") with ideas on presenting star evolution to intro astronomy students. In...
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Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
Aug 23, 2004 6:28 pm
... I've done it two ways. One is like a horizontal flow chart. Note that when I'm doing it, I'm painting in big broad brush-strokes. I don't care if they...
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Janelle M. Bailey
janelle_bailey
Aug 30, 2004 7:37 pm
Hello all, As many of you know, the Astronomy Education community is growing rapidly. Over the past several years, we have held a Town Meeting session at AAPT,...
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T F Slater
astronomer_tim
Sep 8, 2004 12:39 am
The NASA Education Forum in the Science Education Department of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has developed a comprehensive set of diagnostic...
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Michael Zeilik
mzeilik@...
Sep 10, 2004 12:09 am
... I can give it a try. -- Michael Zeilik The Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide, FLAG, is at: <http://www.flaguide.org> The FLAG is a collaborative...
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T F Slater
astronomer_tim
Sep 23, 2004 3:21 pm
EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: Building Community: The Emerging EPO Profession September 14-16, 2005 ASP's 117th Annual Meeting -...
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Joe
betapict
Sep 29, 2004 9:22 pm
Do any of you have a policy that allows students to retake a test? I'd like to implement something like this as an experiement. I'm thinking of having a...
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Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Sep 29, 2004 10:15 pm
... I haven't done entire exam retests, but I have implemented mastery questions in both physics and astronomy. I usually have a "case study" on each astronomy...
