Student-led questionnaire

Student-led questionnaire

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Students create questions and answers. Educators validate them, and make them available throughout the course.

  • Group Size Unlimited
  • Time Frame 120-240 minutes
  • Facilitation Level High
  • Contributes to Create & Evaluate & Analyze & Understand & Remember & Activate

  • Resources

    Computer/Tablet, LMS or online platform like Piazza, Slack or Zulip.

     

  • Individual Work

    Yes

  • Team Work

    No

  • Mode

    Online & Offline

Students create questions and answers. Educators validate them, and make them available throughout the course.

Implementation

  1. Students receive concrete orientation and examples, and create questions (quizzes) about topics from the course syllabus previously assigned to them (also including a detailed explanation for the correct and incorrect answers).
  2. Teachers validate the quizzes and the explanations.
  3. The teacher publishes the validated quizzes online for the whole class during the course, allowing immediate feedback on quizzes, which students must complete during the course. These quizzes, although mandatory, just inform the student on their quiz score and allow consulting the explanations. They do not enter the students’ final grade.

Aim

Several pedagogic systems have proposed the advantages of strengthening the collaboration of students and teacher in the learning process (e.g., flipped classroom strategy). While the value of specific feedback during the learning process (the course duration) is unquestionable, the limited time, number of students and the complexity of most subjects are obstacles for making the most of this crucial learning resource.
This system aims to:
1. Provide automatic, specific and personalized feedback to students during the course. Students will access a significant pool of questions, test their knowledge, access the justifications and, if needed, further engage on forum conversations.
2. Provide information for students to organize their study – which topics require further studies, or how the student is progressing in comparison with their peers. This will promote studying throughout the course, and not only near the examination’s dates, or only to focus on the topics needed for assignments.

Notes

The educator must allocate time to provide explanations, guidance, and answer questions. A LMS is recommended to handle the data.

Credit

Paulo Jorge Nicola, University of Lisbon

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