Reflective Journal 2
Reflective Journal 2
Topics Covered:
Self-Assessments and Reflections
Restrictions on Online Course Materials
Overview / Summary of Topics:
Self-Assessments and reflections allow students to enhance their performance through discussions, surveys, practice quizzes, etc. A discussion forum could include asking the students the following question: “what are your personal goals for this course?” with a follow-up question at the end of the year. Students may create a portfolio and include information about their improvements, strengths, and weaknesses.
The TEACH Act restricts sharing online materials with others, such as students, for reproduction purposes. Teachers may use materials in the classroom as long as they’re not published online or intended for the sharing of others. The TEACH Act also requires teachers to add a legal notice in the syllabus noting that materials throughout the course may be copyrighted, such as textbooks, images, etc.
Item of Interest:
Clicker Databases interested me because I had never heard of this type of questioning before. To further my curiosity, I went to YouTube to see how the questioning was conducted and to my surprise, it was simple for the students in attendance to choose the letter A-D when given a multiple-choice question. As stated in the text, clickers are great for creating self-assessments, practice quizzes, and in some instances prompting online discussions.
Areas of Help or Clarification:
An area in which I would benefit from further clarification is the implementation of distracters on tests. Distracters are intentional uses of wrong answers on tests/exams in which creators of the test will place part of the correct answer with the incorrect ending and so on. In a past class; that I took, our reading stated that placing wrong answers by confusing students, such as distracters, should not be included on tests/exams. So my question is, when is it appropriate to use distracters in tests/exams, if at all?
Hi Chloe,
ReplyDeleteI hope you are doing well. In your blog, you stated you needed clarification on whether to add distractors on tests/quizzes. I think that is a good answer. In my opinion, all tests will have distractors or wrong answers placed on the test because if there were not any, only the right answer would appear; although I do the think the wrong answer should be realistic but not so much to try to make the child pick the wrong answer, if that makes sense? For example, I am not a good testing person, so that does not mean I do not know the materials, it just means i struggle when it comes to them distractions, so I think they should be there just not so close that the child will pick them. I feel on some tests I have taken, especially the Praxis they try to intentionally trip us up and I think being evaluated on the content should have a practical answer and the wrong answer should not be practical. I hope this makes sense?
I hope you have a great semester,
Lindsey