Session:
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Introductory Courses II
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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How Do We Motivate Students to Study the Text?
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Meeting:
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2014 Summer Meeting: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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1:00PM
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Author:
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Brad R. Trees, Ohio Wesleyan University
740-368-3779, brtrees@owu.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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As physics instructors, we often bemoan the tendency for students to read the text only as a means to an end--namely, solving assigned end-of-chapter problems. How can we motivate students to study the text before jumping headfirst into homework problems? This talk discusses an effort to provide a framework within which students interact with dynamic content in a digital-only format. The framework is based upon a series of short-answer conceptual questions that are posed to the student as new material is introduced. Instructors can assign these questions, which are graded online, as part of a reading assignment before class. The results can be stored electronically and made available to instructors to inform class preparation. Over the course of a chapter, students will, in effect, have constructed an assessment portfolio based on the results of these conceptual questions.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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Trees-aapt-summer-2014v3.pdf
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