http://ianbeatty.com/blog/archives/15 Thinking about thought, perception, communication, learning, culture, and the human condition. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ianbeatty.com/blog/archives/15/comment-page-1#comment-22265 why are clicker questions hard to create? « think twice Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:09:03 +0000 http://ianbeatty.com/blog/?p=15#comment-22265 [...] One flash of insight I had recently is that, at least for me, it’s not really creating questions that’s tough. The hard part is figuring out what I want my students to learn from the class, and casting that in terms of what I want my students to be able to do. I’ve been trying to shift my thinking from “the material” to “the demonstrable, assessable learning outcomes” (cf. The Myth of Coverage). [...] [...] One flash of insight I had recently is that, at least for me, it’s not really creating questions that’s tough. The hard part is figuring out what I want my students to learn from the class, and casting that in terms of what I want my students to be able to do. I’ve been trying to shift my thinking from “the material” to “the demonstrable, assessable learning outcomes” (cf. The Myth of Coverage). [...]

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