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| Abstract Title: | Investigating Minute Papers to Assess Scientific Reasoning |
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| Abstract: | One-minute papers, also known as exit tickets, are a formative assessment strategy that asks students to respond to one or two short-answer prompts following an in-class lesson. Typically, the prompts ask students to identify a key take-home lesson and a question or confusion they have about the lesson. Students' responses help instructors gauge students' understanding and engagement in the class. We investigate how coding such regular, brief post-class reflections for sophistication of reasoning can provide a useful proxy measure of aggregate student engagement and growth in critical thinking in a general-education physics class. In future work, we plan to investigate using automated methods to statistically code aggregate levels of scientific reasoning in large-enrollment classes. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
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| Primary Contact: |
Carolyn Sealfon Princeton University 232 Lewis Library Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: 609-258-6448 |
