tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392086232349953894.post2797087866004752712..comments2024-03-19T12:17:09.939-04:00Comments on SlamDunkMath: No Exam - using Artifacts of Student Learning with an Interview.Alex Overwijkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14157244963335094945noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392086232349953894.post-35163626419434139102014-01-05T21:01:33.592-05:002014-01-05T21:01:33.592-05:00Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the interest.
1) This is m...Hi Jonathan,<br />Thanks for the interest.<br />1) This is my first crack at this. Students do a midterm interview with me but it is only about how things are going.<br />2) Copying could be an issue. Students will only interview on two strands max. It is about learning the expectations in the course. I intend to focus on the process expectations in the interview.<br />3) Students will be given 5 full periods to work on their "stuff". Students received the details about this on December 15th and the interview is the last week of January.<br /><br />I will blog about the experience and include student samples. It should be interesting.Alex Overwijkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14157244963335094945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392086232349953894.post-37617820339910428502014-01-05T19:35:04.343-05:002014-01-05T19:35:04.343-05:00Alex, this looks awesome--I definitely want to try...Alex, this looks awesome--I definitely want to try this sometime in the future.<br /><br />A few questions:<br />(1) Have students practiced oral exams/interviews with you before? I could see this as a disadvantage for some students who might be intimidated by a teacher and who would do much better submitting something like a recording of themselves presenting the material or answering your questions (using something like Doceri).<br /><br />(2) What about students copying each other's work and submitting that to you? How do you check for this when you might have a high number of submissions?<br /><br />(3) How much time will you give (have you given) your students to complete this assignment?<br /><br />If possible, I'd love to see examples of students' submissions after the assignment. I'd be scared to do this as a final just because the quality of work could vary and the open-endedness of it could be intimidating to students if you haven't done something like that before. However, if you provide them with examples, I find you often get 40 variations of your example instead of the wide-open creativity that'd be possible otherwise. Let us know how it goes!Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701195188081637932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392086232349953894.post-44553386635132842642014-01-02T14:29:15.405-05:002014-01-02T14:29:15.405-05:00Hey Jimmy, the students are submitting the artifac...Hey Jimmy, the students are submitting the artifacts on the last day of the course. They then tell me what strand(s) (two max) they want to focus on during the interview. Interviews take place on exam day 8-3. They can totally combine expectations. I am just bringing the artifacts to the interview as a starting point. Should be an interesting two days (as I have two sections). I'll let you know how it goes.Alex Overwijkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14157244963335094945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1392086232349953894.post-47296404342235958442014-01-02T13:47:16.380-05:002014-01-02T13:47:16.380-05:00Awesome as an exam! I did something similar but a...Awesome as an exam! I did something similar but as a portfolio. But the idea was the same - a focus on the mathematical processes. Students were able to submit evidence throughout their learning to demonstrate that they have achieved the process expectations. There were some physical artifacts, but also some electronic documents as well (with pictures). I did it as an ongoing assessment, but I think the way that you're doing it as a substitute for exam is great!<br /><br />What do the students think? When can they submit the artifacts?<br /><br />Something that I did with the portfolio was that students could combine expectations if it's a problem that involved multiple ones. Maybe that's harder to do with the MHF4U expectations though?<br /><br />Thanks for sharing!Jimmy Paihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10164577294310143232noreply@blogger.com