Title: Measuring Student Success in Mastering Physics
1Measuring Student Success in Mastering Physics
AstronomyTips Techniques to Consider
- Scott Hildreth - Chabot College
2A bit about me
- Teaching Physics Astronomy since 1989
- Chabot College, CSU East Bay, UC Berkeley
- Astro sections 50 students (3 hours/week)
- Physics sections 30 45 students (7
hours/week)
3Ways I used Mastering initially
- In Physics for automated grading of traditional
Homework problems in a once-a-week assignment - In Astronomy for tracking student access and
time using animated tutorials
4Why did you decide to measure student data?
External Influences
- Rich History in Physics Education Research
Assessments (FCI, MBT, CSEM) - Improve results w/ Mastering?
- Retention/Success Comparisons
- Can I justify use/time/effort?
5Why did you decide to measure student data?
Internal Influences
- Expanding opportunity to use new resources
- Web, YouTube, Simulations
- But What works? For Whom?
- How did learning preferences impact resource
use/success?
6An Aha moment
7Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see who is working
Cannon, Annie Chandrasekhar Einstein,
Albert Feynman, RichardHawking,
StephenHerschel, CarolKlumpke-Roberts,
Lightman, AlanPerlmutter, Saul Rubin, Vera
8Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see what they miss why
9Mastering Captures Data
Quickly what they miss why
10How I got started
- Using Diagnostic Data from HW
- Changed Lectures
- Tuned delivery to key problems
- Focused on Common Errors
- Changed Class Format
- More peer learning with group work
- Correlated Group Work to Retention
11Another AHA momentMeasuring and Correlating Data
12Mastering Enables RAPID Data Analysis
13Retrieving and Using Mastering Data
- Download Grade Book to Excel
- Create total columns for various assignment types
- Graph totals against one another
- Now I spend my time looking at data and coming
up with new ways to try things
14Fall 2012 Astro Data from Excel
15Fall 2012 Astro Data from Excel
16Does HW improve Quiz Scores?
17Does Homework SuccessCorrelate to Exam Success?
18Does Homework SuccessCorrelate to Exam Success?
19Homework Quizzes DO Correlate better with Exams
20Ways I Use Mastering Now Calculus-based Physics
- Homework
- Introductory prelecture assignments for each
chapter - Weekly homework assignments
- HW Quiz in class to ensure students working
authentically - In-class collaborative group work (teams)
- Lecture doing problems together
- Exam Review
- In-class competition (teams)
- Outside of class preparation
- Extra Credit Remedial Help
21Ways I Use Mastering Now Introductory Astronomy
- Homework
- Weekly homework assignments with ranking tasks
- Reading quizzes
- Links to additional reading, videos, and
resources - Lecture doing online simulations together
- Exam Review
- Outside of class preparation
- Extra Credit Remedial Help
22A quick caveat
- You dont have to do all of these at once! Try
one new thing a termbut measure it!!
23Long Term Benefit Data!
24Mastering Enables Data Analysis Learning Outcomes
25Personal Goals
- Track student usage easily
- Take earlier, positive action
- Students obviously struggling
- Those working hard, and
- Those hardly working.
26Current Data Analysis Projects
- Identify most-missed problems with diagnostic
data - Add messages, hints, YouTube to suggest and
target student thinking - online office hour nudges
- See if students do better
27Questions? Discussion?
- Check out the resource list and current research
- http//www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/mas
tering - Login to my classes to look around
- Email me with questions!
- Images reprinted in the online presentation and
available online were borrowed with permission
from "e-mail.this.book", The Cartoon Bank, Alfred
A. Knopf, NY, 1996. The Far Side comics by Gary
Larson cannot be distributed online.