- How would a study guide be used differently than making the content of an online test available for an entire week as opposed to requiring students to take an online timed test or a paper and pencil test?
- How much prior to the test would it be beneficial to have a Study Guide (as many of you do not even open the test and review the content prior to a day or two before it is due)?
- What type of information would you expect to be on the Study Guide? Topics, sample questions, highlighted sections of the text???
- In other words - if you believe a Study Guide is different than having access to test content for an entire week - 1) how is the content different 2) when would it be most beneficial/used by students
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Study Guide
Several of you indicated that a STUDY GUIDE would be helpful. I am open to this idea. However, I need YOUR assistance.
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I think Study Guides would be beneficial, but at the same time, I like having the test available for the entire week so that I have ample time to complete it. I personally don't feel as much pressure when it isn't timed.
ReplyDeleteI think that a study guide would be useful because it lets us know EXACTLY what is going to be on the test. It will hopefully destress us a little knowing that we have an idea of whats going on. It would also be great if we could turn the study guide in for some kind of extra credit before we take the test online, like the class before our test. A good time to give us the study guide would be like a week before we take the test. I hope this helps with deciding what would be good.
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate the feedback. I guess my brain is still in a fog and am not thinking well. I don't understand how opening a test and seeing the EXACT questions and having them for an entire week to work on and submit is different from what you just described as having a study guide.
ReplyDeleteThe test only has the specific items. A study guide that I create would include all important information students need to know and understand within the course. Test questions would be taken from the Study Guide but would only be a subset or certain parts of the study guide. If not done this way then isn't the study guide just the test and it is exactly what we have been doing for the the first three tests??
YOu said, "A good time to give us the study guide would be like a week before we take the test." Isn't this exactly what we've been doing - having ACCESS to and ALL of the test for a week before it is due. Everyone has been encouraged to study the questions, study together, post questions to the blog or contact me before "taking the test" and submiting it online.
Help me understand.
I think that by having the test open for a week for us to look at and work in is fine that a study guide is just something else that I know i personally wouldnt even bother with if I knew I could look at my actual test for a whole week. But if it helps people I'm all for it.
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