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| Abstract Title: | Students as producers of effective assessment content, even non-majors! |
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| Abstract: | We describe the implementation of using student-generated content as part of the summative assessment component of a large, introductory physics course for non-majors taught at UBC. Using the PeerWise online tool, students were required, on two separate occasions during the semester-long course, to individually author one original assessment question (and associated explanation), together with community participation to answer 5 questions of their peers, and rate and comment on three further questions. As in previous implementation of PeerWise that have yielded a surprisingly high quality of student contribution, we provided extensive and on-going scaffolding and support as to how to author questions of high quality through the course tutorials. We describe patterns of engagement, student views of using the system and a preliminary assessment of question and explanation quality, by evaluating and categorizing a sample of submitted questions. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Simon Bates University of British Columbia 1961 East Mall, Vancouver,, Non U.S. V6S1Z1 Phone: 6043632550 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Emily Altiere, UBC Firas Moosvi, UBC Georg Rieger, UBC |
