Ignite AMATYC 2012 First Half

Doctor Strange-RobOR

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Assessment!

What is Assessment?

Formative Assessment

Usually at the start

Correct errors that can lead to bigger problems

Summative Assessment

Usually at the end of a block of time.

Think Final Exam

Assessment Test!≫

It has many disguisesDaily Quizzes

Group Quizzes

Discussions

Clickers

Writing Projects

Homework

Practice Tests

Daily and Group Quizzes๏ How does this work in the grade book?

๏ What if someone doesn’t pull their weight?

Group DiscussionsCould be online

Each person write a sentence in a paragraph

Random draw to explain to the class

Clickers Or Voting Questions

๏ Does NOT require electronics!

๏ There are tons of resources out there – use them!

Writing Assignments๏ Could be short

๏ Alone or in a group

๏ Explaining is the key

Online Homework Is Your Friend

Takes care of the drill problems

Immediate feedback

Timed quizzes to improve speed

We Don’t Teach Here

There are no magic answers!

Review QuizzesIn the online homework system

Only if we do not have an exam

Because of these, rarely do I hear in Calculus

“Wait, what is the product rule again?”

Practice Tests Keep Students on Schedule๏ What is

covered this block

๏ How much is covered in the semester

Practice Tests Remind Them of the Major Ideas

No need to create a review anymore

Sometimes this is a wake up call!

Also eliminates the section cheating.

How Fast? - Practice Tests

Your Free Time Will Vanish

You will find yourself looking for questions everywhere

Don’t re-invent the wheel, use resources!

Setting up questions will take time

Your Workload will Increase

๏ Writing good questions takes time

๏ Grading takes time

๏ Lining up assignments

๏ Yep, takes time

๏ So introduce these things in stages

Students Will Sing Your Praises!๏ Just not to you!

๏ Their next teacher will also sing your praises.

๏ No promises on how loudly they sing

Dr. Strange-Rob

a.k.a. Rob Eby

@RobEbymathdude

A copy and links at tinyurl.com/8gbozpf

Livin’ and Lovin’ the Live BindersPeg Hohensee, Ph.D.Kaplan University

Student Support Materials๏ Students not using your resources?

๏ Students not finding your resources?

๏ Students getting frustrated?

Live Binder Power

๏ Nearly 40,000 hits in 5 months

๏ Now ≈3000 hits per week!

Live Binders๏ Free service or pay service


๏ Organizes resources



๏ Static links



๏ Static links

๏ Dynamic organization



๏ Static links

๏ Dynamic organization

“Your 3-ring binder for the web”

www.livebinders.com – retrieved 10/16/12

http://www.livebinders.com/

Live Bind Link๏ Embed in class or center

๏ One url instead of a list of resources

Live Binder Shelves:(each class?)

Live Binder: (each unit?)

Live Binder: (tabs – each topic?)

Easy to create!

Multiple Layouts

Tools:๏ LiveBinder It Bookmarklet


๏ iPad App

๏ TeacherCast App

๏ Chrome App


๏ iPad App

๏ TeacherCast App

๏ Chrome App

๏ Links to your Blog or Website

Public Binders

Live Binder Service

www.livebinders.com

http://www.livebinders.com/

Questions

Please contact:

Peg Hohensee, Ph.D.Director of Math Across the CurriculumKaplan University

[email protected]

Nice to Meet You!

Virtual Introductions

in an Online World

Michelle LisKaplan University

How can you get to know and remember your students?

How can students get to know one another?

Voicethread + Wikispaces =Connections!

Voicethread

Sign up for a Voicethread Account

Create a Voicethread

You can upload:

๏ Images

๏ Documents

๏ Videos

Comment to add audio

Publishing Options

Ways to share

Pick Embed and Copy code

Wikispaces

Create an account

Create a Wiki

Helpful Hints

Go to Edit – Widget – Other HTML and paste your code

Page full of introductions

Contact info:

Michelle [email protected]

Helping Our Students by Recalling Our Teachers

John C. Miller

The City College of C.U.N.Y.

Statement #4๏ Our teachers’ teachers’ teachers’ teachers

routinely asked their studentsto show all their steps.

Statement #3๏ Our teachers’ teachers’ teachers


Statement #2๏ Our teachers’ teachers


Statement #1๏ Our teachers

routinely asked usto show all our steps.

Statement #1 (more examples)

๏ Miss Llewelyn

๏ Miss Trupiano

๏ Miss Koithan

๏ Mr. Gould

๏ Miss Sullivan

๏ Miss Sipson

๏ Mr. Reed

๏ Mr. Gideon

Miss Bessie M. Koithan’s Sixth GradeJohn E. Pound Elementary SchoolLockport, N.Y. 1949-50

Statement #1 (an exception)

๏ Let’s stipulate that“teachers” meansteachers at theundergraduate leveland below.

Prof. E. R. KolchinColumbia University

Statement #0๏ We routinely ask our students

to show all their steps ...

Statement #0 (continued)๏ … in order to provide

optimal feedbackif the last step is incorrect.

Statement # -1๏ We routinely ask our students

to purchase math softwarethat accepts onlyshort final answers.

Example #1: Problem and Solution

Example #1: Program’s Response

We Disposed of Multiple-Choice

We complained loudlyand in large numbersabout multiple-choicein the early 1990’s.

A publisher respondedby developing softwarethat accepted any final step.

All the other publishers followed suit!

We’ve Settled For Short Answers

No similar groundswellis apparent todayconcerning the limitationsof short answers.

Why Have We Settled?

1. We’re too slow-witted to have noticed.

2. We don’t care about our students.

3. We are too lazy or too timid.

4. We are terrified of intelligent software.

What’s To Be Done?

Punch out the messenger.

Honor our pedagogical ancestorsby protesting to publishersabout the serious limitationsof their short answer software.

THE PIZZAZZ TEACHER

TEACHING OUT OF THE

BOX

…….PIZZAZZ…….

IT IS LIKE EATING A………PIZZAIT IS ENJOYABLE……..

IT IS MOTIVATING…….

IT CREATES EXCITEMENT……..

IT PLACES A SKILL IN LONG-TERM MEMORY……..

PIZZAZZ INSTRUCTORS

THE STUDENTS WILL KEEP

DESIRINGMORE MATHEMATICAL

INSTRUCTION

COLLEGE PROFESSORA COLLEGE PROFESSOR SAID………

“LET’S ADD SOME SPICES TO MY INSTRUCTION TODAY”.

“ LET’S ADD SOME FLAVOR”.

“LET’S ADD SOME HUMOR”

“MY TEACHING NEEDS SOME PIZZAZZ !”

EFFECTS OF “PIZZAZZ”

WILL HELP BRAIN’S MEMORY STATION

1. RECEIVE INFORMATION

2. RETAIN INFORMATION

3. RECALL INFORMATION

BILL GATES FOUNDATION

2010 COLLEGE STATISTICS

31.3% GRADUATE IN 4- YEARS

56 % GRADUATE IN 6- YEARS

MATHEMATICS: “ STEM”

๏ MATHEMATICS: “A FILTER CLASS“

๏ “STEM COURSE”

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY

ENGINEERING /MATHEMATICS

EXAMPLE: “PIZZAZZ”MICKEY MOUSE : “ IMAGINARY” GUY

“NOT REAL”

IMAGINARY NUMBERS

Ii, 2i , 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i

MICKEY MOUSE

SPIDER MAN

TIGER WILL HELP!

COMPLEX NUMBERS

a+bi

4+7i

EXAMPLE: “PIZZAZZ”

TRIGONOMETRYHOME!

HOME!

HOMELESS!

WHO HAS A HOME ?

WHERE IS TANGENT ?

QUADRATIC: f(x)=

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

EXPONENTIAL DECAY

PLAN AHEAD!!

ADD A LITTLE HUMOR!

ADD A LITTLE FUN!

ADD A LITTLE “PIZZAZZ”

...……… AMERICA….……..

PRESIDENT BUSH SAID......

IF WE MAKE SURE THAT AMERICA’S

STUDENTS SUCCEED IN LIFE……

THEN THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT

AMERICA SUCCEEDS IN THE WORLD……

HTML Embed Code, Peer Review and the Cloud

Fred FeldonCoastline CC

Fountain Valley, CA

Mathematical DiscussionShould Be the “Heart”

of All Your Classes

Mathematical DiscussionShould Be the “Heart”

of All Your Classes

“There must be far less telling on the part of the

teacher, and far more doing on the part of the student.”

Jean Piaget

Academic Content inOnline Discussion Boards

http://www.techsmith.com/jing

Add “HTML Embed Code”Button to Jing

Copy “HTML Embed Code”to Clipboard

Pasting “HTML Embed Code”into Discussion BoardCourseCompass (Old Design)

Pasting “HTML Embed Code”into Discussion BoardPearsonMyLab (New Design)

Right Click Here

Peer Review andCloud Computing

Liberal Arts Math Writing and Research Component -- Choose One:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/mandelbrot-fractal.html

“Peer review raises academic standards in the classroom.” Carol Boston, ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation,

University of Maryland, College Park, 2002

“When students are asked to write for one another, they write more effectively.” Richard Light, Harvard University, 2003

“Peer review ensures that the material is correct, as well as relevant, original and well written for the readers.” Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Department of Architecture, University of Washington,

2004

“Peer review ensures the quality of papers that are published, sets scientific standards of the discipline and

subtler standards of collegiality, behavior and ethics.” Ethics of Peer Review: A Guide for Manuscript Reviewers, Sara Rockwell,

Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, 2005

“Collaborative peer review is well suited as a formative evaluation.” Larry Keig and Michael Waggoner, Truman State

University, The Center for Teaching and Learning, 1994

http://writer.zoho.com

MOOC: Massive open online courses

https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink https://www.coursera.org/course/precalculus

PatrickJMT on YouTube

I’ve never done this well in a math class. I learned I can do math! The curiosity we had as kids fades away and now we need practical applications. This class has it! I especially enjoyed reading everyone’s video project report (and writing my own). – AS Spring 2012

This is the first math class I’ve actually enjoyed, ever! Math C100 (Liberal Arts Math) is one of the best courses I’ve ever taken. – RM Fall 2011

This is the most valuable and relevant math class I’ve ever taken. I learned new things and found new Internet sites I’ll be sharing with my whole family. I will recommend this course to friends over and over. – LG Summer 2011

The video project made me go from being terrified of math to being totally respectful and in awe of math. Anyone frustrated with algebra or geometry should take this course. – GG Spring 2011

I recommend this class to everyone. I always wondered where and when anyone would use math. This course answered that question: Everywhere and all the time! – MB Fall 2010

This course should be a requirement for all college students. Seriously! You’re not just memorizing stuff. You’re learning how to explain and better understand the world around you. – SL Summer 2010

Thank You

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Luke WalshCatawba Valley Community CollegeHickory, NC

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Smart Pens:Past, Present, and Future

Lawrence PerezSaddleback College

past present future

Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/leapfrog.html

Marggraff had an epiphany about educational toys while watching his 4-year-old learn to read.

past present future

Source: http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/smartpen/echo/Source: http://www.papershow.com/us/

past present future

Source: http://www.danedigital.com/6-Zpen/

past present future

Students hear the instructor and see themselves writing down lecture notes.

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How can this technology enhance student learning? Students hear the

instructor and see themselves writing down lecture notes.

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A student is filmed demonstrating a learning outcome while verbally explaining the work.

Next, the student and a faculty member analyze the student’s work and reflect on the student’s verbal explanation.

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Next, the student and a faculty member analyze the student’s work and reflect on the student’s verbal explanation.

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Solve for x.

4 + x = - 6

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Source: http://www.units.muohio.edu/servicelearning/node/316

past present future

Source: http://www.units.muohio.edu/servicelearning/node/316

How can this technology benefit educators?

past present future

Hundreds place.

Ten-thousands place.

Ten-millions place.

3 9 0 , 5 8 4 , 7 2 6.

Tens place.

Ones place.

Hundred-thousands place.

One-millions place.

Hundred-millions place.

Example 1: Find a pattern for place value in a whole number.

VideoVideo

Place valueThe position of a digit in a number determines its place value.

Determine the place value of a digit in a number.

AssessmentAssessment

Objective 1

Video WorksheetVideo Worksheet

One-thousands place.

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How can this technology improve communication between educators and students in the online environment?

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-4 4 8-8

4

8

-8

-4

x

y

2y x Graph

past present future

Larry PerezSaddleback College

[email protected]

past present future

-4 4 8-8

4

8

-8

-4

x

y

2y x Graph

Imagine how difficult it would be for student to cheat using this format.

Math Anxiety, Test Anxiety, and Working Memory:

Modifications that help highly anxious students in coping with traditional assessments

Chris L. [email protected]

University at Buffalo, SUNY

AMATYC Annual Conference ITLC Sponsored Ignite Event

November 9, 2012

mailto:[email protected]

Math anxiety vs. test anxiety

• Math anxiety was viewed as an extension of test anxiety in the 60’s and 70’s.

• Both were viewed as a psychological construct.

Math anxiety vs. test anxiety

• But we will soon see that it is both a cognitive and psychological construct, which learners have both emotional and strategic responses to cope with the anxiety.

Math anxiety as an independent phenomenon

• Ashcraft et al. (2002, 2005, 2009) asked individuals to read controlled passages of ordinary narratives and treatment passages where content words are replaced by mathematical words.

Math anxiety as an independent phenomenon

• They found that the error rates in reading the treatment passages were significantly higher than those in the controlled passages.

• These findings aim to isolate test anxiety from mathematics anxiety.

Research on letter recall

It was as if the high math-anxious participants were participating in a three-way competition for their limited working memory resources: difficult math, letter retention and recall, and their own math anxiety. The load on working memory became so pronounced that their performance deteriorated markedly—affective drop (Ashcraft & Moore, 2009, p. 202).

Research on letter recall

It was working memory that was compromised in [the] study of college students’ performance and math anxiety; working memory suffered the brunt of the math anxiety effect because of the inner-worries and self-doubts that are reported by math-anxious individuals (Ashcraft & Moore, 2009, p. 203).

Definition of “math anxiety”

Feelings of tension and anxiety that interfere with the manipulations of numbers and the solving of mathematical problems in a wide variety of ordinary life and academic situations (Richardson & Suinn, 1972).

Other triggers for anxiety• Computerized testing: research

shows that students may perform better on a paper-and-pencil test than on a computerized version of the same test.

• Timed test: research shows that students may perform better in an untimed condition than in a time condition.

Motivation to math anxious friendly assessments

Because research shows that working memory can be compromised by math anxiety, highly anxious individuals can be of disadvantage to some of the features in traditional assessments.

Modifications to timed tests

• Traditional: time allotted for an entire test or for sections of a test

• Modified: suggested time for the entire test, and devote a scoring weight for a timing rubric

Timing rubric – an example

Suggesting time: 1 hour

Weight: 10% of the test grade

• Full credit for turning in the test within the suggested time

Timing rubric – an example

Graduated scale for turning in the test for no more than the following duration:

• 90% credit for 1 hour 10 minutes• 80% credit for 1 hour 20 minutes• 70% credit for 1 hour 30 minutes• 60% credit for 1 hour 45 minutes• 50% credit or lower for duration past

1 hour 45 minutes

Timing rubric – an example• It is not necessary to over emphasize

BEFORE an assessment to the students of the scoring methods with a timing rubric.

• But provide feedback to the students on their time management AFTER so that they still have a sense that timeliness is an expectation.

Open-ended questions

• Emphasize to the students that there could be multiple correct responses

• Often ask students to explain in plain English to transcend students’ concept that everyday informal math can be acceptable for school math.

• Encourage students to discuss “What if” situation

Open-ended questions• Encourage students to discuss “What

if” situation• For example, explain why 3 is not an

even number. What if 3 is divisible by 2?

• This is not proof by contradiction, but this is an introduction to help students validate their own thinking and use their ideas appropriately in developmental math courses.

Open-ended questionsOn multi-parts questions:

• Do not lump all the parts into one single paragraph.

• List one part at a time and leave space for students to respond, and then list the subsequent part below the space.

• This is to help alleviate the working memory issue of math anxious students.

Computerized testing

• Some students are anxious in this format.

• Offer a paper-and-pencil alternative to students.

• Also consider: offer a face-to-face verbal version with students who need accommodations in their learning and assessment.

Multiple choice questions• Often induce anxiousness• Multiple choice questions require

letter recall.• Research shows that letter recall is

compromised with math anxious individuals.

• Avoid these questions and avoid letter transfer to separate answer sheets and Scantrons.

General principle on modifying assessments

• Begin with the ideas that working memory is compromised, and evaluate a test where working memory is required as a part of the operation of an assessment.

• Design features on the operations of an assessment could be modified to created a more math anxious friendly assessment.

• However, students are still expected to access their working memory of math content and knowledge to perform well.

Pins! Sharing Teaching Tips Through

Rebecca SchantzInstructor, MathematicsSt. Louis Community College - Wildwood

Survey your students easily with Google Drive

The evolved CAT

Drop-down menus, FR, Scales, Grids, Checkboxes, Multiple Choice, …

Share results with students easily!

PollEverywhere.comLet students use their phone… like a CLICKER!

Free Response / MCText or send via hyperlink

MC …. Want to try?

IF-ATs: Immediate Feedback Assessment Techniques

How do IF-ATs work?

Auspens: Refillable Dry Erase Markers from Ecosmart

6 pens + 6 refill bottles < $50

I see a linear system!

Cool alternatives to flashcards

Oh! the possibilities

Smartpen Pencasts

Free Ways to Share Privately

Dropbox

Google Voice

The Kawaii “kah-why” Factor

More of this means more of this

Dr. Megan E. Bradley, Frostburg University, “Establishing the Right Mindset: Helping Your Students to Train Their Brains”

Students’ (formerly optional) Math Photos…

Dr. Tami Eggleston, McKendree University, “Leveraging the Technology Toolbox: Engaging Students Through Personalization and Belonging”

to “First Day” Scavenger Hunt!

Our Pinterest Comfort Levels

Pinterest Comfort Level PE

http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/LTM3NTY2Mjc3MQ

http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/LTM3NTY2Mjc3MQ

In closing, you’ve been warned…

Thank you!

You can find my Pins when you

search: Becky Schantz, Pinterest,

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A Vision for Long Term Educational Reform

Jon OaksMacomb Community Collegewww.jonoaks.com

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