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Research Problem • Part of learning is learning from mistakes, but there is no
“safe” mechanism for attempt->failure->reattempt built into most courses where grades depend heavily on a small number of exams.
• Students have no incentive to revisit “failed” material from midterm exams until studying for the final exam.
• Students get discouraged when faced with failures on midterm exams.
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Research QuestionWill offering students multiple tries on low-stakes assessments improve student perception of learning gains and mastery of learning outcomes?
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Research MethodsMy primary research methods include:
• Give online, low-stakes quizzes after each content module. • Offer optional “re-quiz” opportunities to give students additional
chances to master failed outcomes and improve grades. Re-quizzes will not include all outcomes.
How will I collect these data?
• Mastery of learning outcomes will be measured based on performance on final exam.
• Final exam questions will be coded based on learning outcomes. • Survey instrument to collect student attitudes and approaches to
repeat quizzes
My strategy to analyze these data will be:
• Use ANOVA followed by post-hoc comparison to compare final exam scores from concepts not quizzed, concepts quizzed once, and concepts covered on re-quizzes.
• Compare average number of quiz attempts for final letter grade and/or final exam grade
• Code student responses to repeat quiz survey instrument.
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Alignment of Research Question and Methods
QuestionWill offering students multiple tries on low-stakes assessments
improve student perception of learning gains
and mastery of learning objectives?
Method
• Offer re-quizzes on select learning objectives
• Quantitate final exam performance on each learning objective
• Compare number of attempts with final grade
• Student surveys to explain quiz practices
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Progress since the Institute• My course is scheduled to run in Spring 2016 • Prepared the following documents:
• IRB documentation• Student survey instrument
• Evaluated learning objectives and learning outcomes• Learning objectives are in revision to make them assessable (change to action verbs
rather than verbs like “understand” or “learn” • Learning outcomes have been sorted and subdivided for quizzes (although I’m not sure I
will share the subdivided list with students, as it is rather intimidating all at once) • Gathered and sorted quiz questions
• This is an ongoing process as I will revise quizzes up until they are posted based on class progress
• Still need to:• Receive IRB approval• Figure out how to force Blackboard to do my bidding in terms of score-keeping • Finalize outcomes list• Figure out how to write an abstract for ASMCUE when I won’t have final data yet