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Daniel
Thanks. I work with upwards of 1000 students per term. However, I
believe this reading log could be adapted into something that is
entered and graded electronically.
What guidance do you provide students on 'how to read a textbook'?
Thanks,
Dr. Roy Jensen
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Lecturer, Chemistry
W5-19, University of Alberta
780.248.1808
On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:39:35 -0400, you wrote:
I have noted similar issues with our freshman (bright, semi-articulate, super dependent on others and very good at externalizing accountability for their own learning). One strategy we use to address this is to require freshman to read the course text and write some minimally reflective reaction to each chapter via a two-sided, one page reading log <http://physicsed.buffalostate.edu/danmac/ReflectiveWriting/ReadingLogV7.doc>
and have each log turned in for fast cursory grading weekly, 10-12 logs worth about 10% of the final grade (about 1 letter grade). Then student grade is visibly and solidly linked to this expectation for diligent student performance. We do this for our courses where students are expected to start developing strategies for making sense of technical writing although the form does not actually require extended sense-making, which we work on via class time activity.
A suggestion I have for realtime assessment of student understanding is whiteboard use. I’m long part the point where whiteboards are in any way invasive or time-absorbing in my class because I use them for so many other reasons but monitoring and guiding student thinking is certainly something important to me. There are many many videos, URLs and blogs detailing whiteboard use extant at least in HS / Intro physics. I know they are used widely in HS modeling chem, but am unfamiliar with URLs supporting that.
Dan M
Dan MacIsaac, Associate Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
462SciBldg BSC, 1300 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo NY 14222 USA 1-716-878-3802
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Physics Graduate Coordinator & NSF Investigator for ISEP (MSP) and Noyce
On Sep 23, 2015, at 10:09 PM, rjensen@ualberta.ca wrote: