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| Abstract Title: | Assessment feedback: A tool to promote scientific practices in upper-division |
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| Abstract: | Students' scores on assessments play a vital role in course modifications, though their effectiveness relies on the quality of the interpretation of these scores. We adapt the notion of assessments as a change agent so that a well-developed rubric accompanied by intentionally designed instructor feedback can act as a tool to inform course improvement. In conjunction with work developing a standardized upper-division thermal physics assessment, this pilot work articulates a methodology to determine feedback for instructors to inform how well their courses support students in meeting learning goals. In this paper, we present an example using a task targeting the scientific practice of "using mathematics" to explicate this methodology. This work highlights the importance of assessment feedback to inform explicit course modifications in physics. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session I |
| Poster Number: | 1.K5 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
| Contributed Paper Download: | Download Contributed Paper |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Amali Priyanka Jambuge Department of Physics, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS 66506 Phone: 7854738286 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Katherine D. Rainey, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder. Bethany R. Wilcox, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder. James T. Laverty, Department of Physics, Kansas State University. |
