Using Mastering for both Short-Term

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Using Mastering for both Short-Term Long-Term
Success Tips Techniques to Consider

• Scott Hildreth - Chabot College

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A caveat, right from the start

• Nothing I can share today will eliminate.

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Another caveat, right from the start

• There is no ONE right way to do Mastering, that
  everyone will agree to

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A typical division meeting at Chabot
Even though we are all scientists
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A typical Physics department meeting at Chabot
Not even in the same discipline!
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Ways 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

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An Aha moment
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Ways I Use Mastering Now Calculus-based Physics

• Homework
• Introductory assignments at start of each chapter
• Weekly homework assignments
• In-class collaborative group work (teams)
• Lecture doing problems together
• Exam Review
• In-class competition (teams)
• Outside of class preparation
• Extra Credit Remedial Help

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Ways 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

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Yet another caveat

• You dont have to do all of these at once! Try
  one new thing a term

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Tips for Short-Term Success

• Diagnostics
• Discussion/Recitation Section Group Work
• Competitive Group Exam Reviews
• Lecture Problems
• Homework Quizzes
• Remediation Extended Learning/Extra Credit

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Tip 1DiagnosticsTeaching US why students get
the wrong answers
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Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see what they miss why
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Mastering Captures Data
Quickly what they miss why
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Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see who is working
Cannon, Annie Chandrasekhar Einstein,
Albert Feynman, RichardHawking,
StephenHerschel, CarolKlumpke-Roberts,
Lightman, AlanPerlmutter, Saul Rubin, Vera
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Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see time they spend
Cannon, Annie Chandrasekhar Einstein,
Albert Feynman, RichardHawking,
StephenHerschel, CarolKlumpke-Roberts,
Lightman, AlanPerlmutter, Saul Rubin, Vera
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Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see success on each assignment
Cannon, Annie Chandrasekhar, S. Einstein,
Albert Feynman, Richard Klumpke-Roberts,
D Lightman, Alan Rubin, Vera
Cannon, Annie Chandrasekhar, S. Einstein,
Albert Feynman, Richard Klumpke-Roberts,
D Lightman, Alan Rubin, Vera
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Mastering Captures Data
Quickly see time per assignment
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1 Short-Term Tip Use Diagnostic Data

• Examine submissions quickly by
• Hardest problem ( most common errors)
• Time (caveat not necessarily valid measure)
• Names
• Adapt lecture/discussion to focus on errors
• Re-assign key problems (with variables!)
• Examine student success across spectrum of course
  assessments

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Mastering Enables RAPID Data Analysis
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Mastering Enables Data Analysis
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Mastering Enables Data Analysis
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Tip 2Group Work Shared learning teaching
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2 Short-Term Tip Try Collaborative Group Work

• Teams of 3-4 students per single computer
• One person uses their login
• Everyone participates to arrive at single answer
• Build short assignments with tutorials, ranking
  tasks, test-bank questions, a few EOCs
• Copy score to gradebook for all participants

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Tip 3Competitive Exam ReviewTimed,Collaborat
ive,Conceptual
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3 Short-Term Tip Try Competitive Exam Review

• Teams of 3-4 students per single computer
• Build short TIMED assignments with test-bank
  questions
• Use diagnostics during event to spur on teams as
  they race to finish.

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3 Short-Term Tip Try Competitive Exam Review
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Tip 4 Lecture ProblemsHelp Students see how
to use the system
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4 Short-Term Tip Use the System in Lecture

• Demonstrate keyboard shortcuts
• Entering \alpha becomes a
• Entering x_22 becomes x22
• Demonstrate feedback for incorrect answers
• Provide additional problems for students to
  review or access if they miss lecture

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Tip 5Homework QuizzesEncourage EVERY Student
to Learn the Material
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5 Short-Term Tip Homework Quizzes

• How can we deal with cheating?
• Students do much better on HW than on exams
• Collaborating
• Outright copying
• Unlimited time
• Pick one exam-type problem for in-class quiz on
  day HW is due.

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5 Short-Term Tip Homework Quizzes
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5 Short-Term Tip Homework Quizzes
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Tip 6Extra Credit RemediationReward
Students willing to go farther
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6 Short-Term Tip Remediation Extra Credit

• Take advantage of breadth of problems
• Examples from Physics/Astronomy
• Math Remediation /-
• Video Tutors
• Concept Quizzes
• Encourage applications and extensions
• Locating ( Creating!) YouTube clips

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Adding Hyperlinks
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Link Examples

• Add Hyperlinks to Assignments
• Share videoclips, lecture links, and more

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Link Examples

• Add Hyperlinks to Assignments
• Share videoclips, lecture links, and more

What they see
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And over the long term? Data!
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Using Results
Anni Cannon Marie Curie Charles Darwin Albert
Einstein Natalie Angier Carolyn Shoemaker
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Tips for Long-Term Success

• Use Gradebook Data to Compare Assessments
• Download to Excel
• Compare Homework Scores to Midterms
• Focus Attention on Particular Students
• Use Learning Outcomes to compare results across
  classes and time

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Mastering Enables Data Analysis Learning Outcomes
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Mastering Enables Data Analysis
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Mastering Enables Data Analysis
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Tips for Long-Term Success

• Use Diagnostics to clarify and enhance key
  problems
• Look at past semester results
• Identify areas where more students tripped
• Add messages, hints, and even wording to help
  students do even better
• See website for details

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Enhancing Assignments

• Messages before any item in an assignment
• Simple editor
• Add Annotations
• Add hyperlinks
• Rephrase or emphasize
• Advanced editor
• Expanded hints
• More correct/incorrect answer feedback

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Message Examples

• Add Messages to Assignments with instructions,
  caveats, gotchas, and encouragement

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Hint Examples

• Add Hints to Problems w/ Simple Editor

Declarative Hints nudge students
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Hint Examples
Socratic Hints ask for students to answer
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Image Example

• Add your own diagrams parts to problems

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Getting Started!
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Personal Goals

• Track student usage easily
• Take earlier, positive action
• Students obviously struggling
• Those working hard, and
• Those hardly working.

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Results Astro

• Trend Increase in Retention
• Similar trend in Success
• Student Surveys
• 90 online AND on-campus say Mastering Astro
  helped them succeed.

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Results Physics

• Increase in Force Concept Inventory (FCI)
  Normative Gain
• Earlier detection of students with difficulties
  learning physics, and improved retention
• Student Surveys
• 90 say Mastering Physics is the most important
  factor in their success.

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We learn by trying things out!
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Familiarity breeds success

• Over time, we will learn to incorporate
• New Tutorial Problems with effective hints
• Which problems need additional hints
• Which problems dont work as well

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On the horizon

• PhET (University of Colorado) simulations in
  Mastering
• Even better audio/visual/text linkage
• Improved adaptive learning
• Quiz questions built into online text
• Redirection to advanced content and/or
• Remediation to review content

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PhET Simulations
My Solar System
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PhET Simulations
My Solar System
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PhET Simulations

• Some thoughts to share
• Try these first in class if you can
• Give more credit to match length
• Edit (with simple editor) follow-up questions
• Encourage students to explore
• Wonderful surprises from students!

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On the horizon? More video
Interactive Questions
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Questions? 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.

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Caveats, Gotchas, Gremlins
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Concerns

• How much time is required to LEARN the tool on
  our side. And,
• How much time away from key concepts is really
  required to teach the tool to the student?
• What about teaching students to diagram problems,
  or explain steps of a solution?
• What about Cheating?

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Concerns Criticisms

• You wont really know what they are doing wrong
  without looking at paper HW
• Some problems dont lend themselves to computer
  mediation
• You spend too much time teaching the tool, not
  the concepts.
• The tool is too complex.
• The grading system makes errors.
• XXXs system has more features.

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But on the plus side

• More time to focus on teaching
• More information to use
• More flexibility than textbooks alone
• More accessibility
• More help for studentsand because of you
• More help for faculty getting started, the right
  way.

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Credit Walter Scriptunas II/Spaceflight Now