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Interesting approach. The difficulty, of course, lies in how to get students to actually read the lecture notes, aka do their homework, but the principle seems
by mtts 7y ago
Interesting approach. The difficulty, of course, lies in how to get students to actually read the lecture notes, aka do their homework, but the principle seems sound enough to me.
In one of the classes I’ve taught we had a similar approach where we had students do a homework assignment beforehand where they would encounter the very problem that he material in the lecture would address. It did seem to make the students who actually did their homework more attentive.
- danieltillett 7y agoThe way I did it was by having an online quiz (three questions) that they could answer from just reading the lecture notes. I would only give access to each quiz a couple of nights before the lecture block was started (4-6 lectures) and they had to complete each mini quiz before the first lecture in the block. Rather pathetically admin made me change this approach after a couple of years to two large quiz’s because I was testing the students “too much”. 3 quick questions every week was too much, but 30 long questions every 6 weeks was OK even if it didn’t get the students to read the notes.