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NTU Singapore — Innovations in Teaching Seminar

Expert-guided, crowdsourced learning content advancing knowledge co-creation & peer learning

[email protected]@simonpbates

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Overview

❖ Principles: ownership, how learning works, effective practices

❖ A story in two parts

❖ PeerWise - an online space for student generated MCQ assessments

❖ Learning objects - going beyond MCQs.

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• Web-­‐based  Multiple  Choice  Question  repository  built  by  students  

• Students:

– develop  new  questions  with  associated  explanations  – answer  existing  questions  and  rate  them  for  quality  and  

difficulty  – take  part  in  discussions  – can  follow  other  authors

peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz

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As a question author…..

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Badges' Points' Leaderboards'

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Implementation

Minimum participation requirements for each of two assessment exercises (PW1, PW2)

Write 1 Answer 5 Rate / comment 3

5% course credit

Physics 101, Energy & Waves Winter Semester: 3 sections, ~800 students

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Writing original questions is a demanding activity

Extensive scaffolding exercises

Revisited in subsequent tutorials

All scaffolding materials available on the PeerWise Community website: www.PeerWise-Community.org

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Selected results and analysisEngagement - how do students use the system?

Benefits - what is the impact on learning?

Question quality - how good is what students produce?

Relevant publications:

Scaffolding student engagement via online peer learning - European Journal of Physics 35 (4), 045002 (2014)

Student-Generated Content: Enhancing learning through sharing multiple-choice questions. International Journal of Science Education, 1-15 (2014).

Assessing the quality of a student-generated question repository - Phys Rev ST PER (2014) 10, 020105

Student-generated assessment - Education in Chemistry (2013) 13 1

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Engagement • Generally, students did:

– Participate beyond minimum requirements

– Engage in community learning, correcting errors

– Create problems, not exercises

– Provide positive feedback

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Correlation with learning outcomes

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Quality of student authored content

Bloom’s Taxonomy of levels in the cognitive domain

Score Level Description

1 Remember Factual knowledge, trivial plugging in of numbers

2 Understand Basic understanding of content

3 Apply Implement, calculate / determine. Typically one-stage problem

4 Analyze Typical multi-step problem; requires identification of strategy

Evaluate Compare &assess various option possibilities; often conceptual

Synthesize Ideas and topics from disparate course sections combined. Significantly challenging problem.

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Question quality

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Explanation quality

0 Missing No explanation provided or explanation incoherent/irrelevant

1 Inadequate Wrong reasoning and/or answer; trivial or flippant

2 MinimalCorrect answer but with insufficient explanation/justification/ Some aspects may be unclear/incorrect/confused.

3 Good Clear and detailed exposition of correct method & answer.

4 ExcellentThorough description of relevant physics and solution strategy. Plausibility of all answers considered. Beyond normal expectation for a correct solution

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Question quality summary (UoE 2011)

2 successive years of the same course (N=150, 350)

‘High quality’ questions: 78%, 79%

Over 90% (most likely) correct, and majority of those wrong were identified by students.

69% (2010) and 55% (2011) rated 3 or 4 for explanations

Only 2% (2010) and 4% (2011) rated 1/ 6 for taxonomic level.

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That’s not commonBottomley & Denny Biochem and Mol Biol Educ. 39(5) 352-361 (2011)

107 Year 2 biochem students 56 / 35 / 9 % of questions in lowest 3 levels.

Momsen et al CBE-Life Sci Educ 9, 436-440 (2010)

“9,713 assessment items submitted by 50 instructors in the United States reported that 93% of the questions asked on examinations in introductory biology courses were at the lowest two levels of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy”

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Beyond MCQs

Why not short answer Qs?

Why not …. anything?

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Beyond MCQs

Why not short answer Qs?

Why not …. anything? LEARNING OBJECTS

Adaptive Comparative Judgement

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PHYS101: Energy and Waves

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Implementation logistics Cohort split into 4 groups

Each week one group tasked with creating LOs

Each submission counts for 2.5% of final grade

Repeat cycle twice per Semester

Students can submit >2 LOs & receive grade for best 2

Short survey on submission

Students encouraged to apply CC licenses

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Results: engagement0 100 200 300

LO 1

LO 2

LO 3

LO 4

LO 5

LO 6

LO 7

LO 8

Number of students

AssignedOptional

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Results: time on task

0 100 200 300 400

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0.5 to 1 h

1 to 2h

2 to 3h

3 to 4h

4 to 5h

More than 5h

Number of students

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Results: self-reported change in understanding

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Number of students

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Number of students

before creating it after creating it How much did you understand the topic your LO was based on

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PHYS101: Energy and Waves

3. Successes

http://youtu.be/BObyt_NJYrE

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Sample 2 - Standing Wave in a bowl

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Sample 3 - Colour Loss Underwater

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Student generated exam content

before creating it after creating it How much did you understand the topic your LO was based on

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Resources for use in class

http://blogs.ubc.ca/phys101

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In summary

technology-enabledpeer learning,

as authentic assessment

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Not quite the whole story• Despite these outstanding examples, many students

didn’t like the LO assessment

• difficulty level vs other assessed components of the course

• credit weighting

• Students dropped these assessments more than other coursework

• Strange ‘phase transition’ for LO vs exam grades

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Expert-guided, crowdsourced learning content advancing knowledge co-creation & peer learning

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Photo credits

Photo credits

Community: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kubina/471164507/

Screen grab from Mwensch ‘A vision of students today’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

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