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[Phys-L] Re: Is Anyone doing Assessment during presentations/lectures of student understanding



Thanks John Clement.

These are the kinds of items I was looking for.

Knowing many of my students will not be formal operational is one of the
reasons I was looking for more materials to help me.

Thanks and the search continues.

Sheron
PTRA'85 and still learning!


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Clement" <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>
To: <PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Is Anyone doing Assessment during presentations/lectures of
student understanding


Apparently the U. Mass Amherst group is using a large number of
interactive
assessments in their courses now. I believe the article about their work
has been recently published, but it does not give more than a few samples
of
their questions. This is part of their Assessing to Learn project.

You might contact them to see if you can get more questions. They claim
to
have filled in many of the gaps in Mazurs questions. Mazur's questions
are
pretty good for a class of all formal operational students, but not as
good
for a mixed class of transitional and concrete operational students.

In either case a mixed class is extremely difficult because some topics
are
easily learned by the formal students, but are impossible for the lower
students such as vectors. Apparently making distinctions between NTN 3rd
law pairs and other opposite but sometimes equal forces is another of
these
topics. Maybe just now some PER groups are beginning to face up to this
problem.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX
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