{"id":548,"date":"2010-10-11T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=548"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:46:43","slug":"experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2010\/10\/11\/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this? quiz outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I gave the students in my grad algorithms class an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/silent-glen-speaks\/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz\/\">am-I-ready-for-this? quiz<\/a>. \u00a0I promised to report back, and I&#8217;m already a little late on that. \u00a0The average for the quiz was ~ 70% &#8211; I was hoping for a higher average, given how <a href=\"http:\/\/teach.glencora.org\/images\/9\/9a\/Am-i-ready-for-this-quiz.pdf\">easy the quiz was<\/a> (in my opinion). \u00a0Two students did not take the quiz (and have dropped the class) and two students (who were in the bottom 10%) did drop the class; so perhaps the quiz had the intended effect.<\/p>\n<p>I am more interested in hearing what the students in my class have to say, though. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m opening up the comments to them: \u00a0Was the quiz useful? \u00a0Did you study for the quiz? \u00a0How could I make the quiz more useful? \u00a0I will try to use this feedback in future years, so please be honest. \u00a0Feel free to respond anonymously with a fake email and fake name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I gave the students in my grad algorithms class an am-I-ready-for-this? quiz. \u00a0I promised to report back, and I&#8217;m already a little late on that. \u00a0The average for the quiz was ~ 70% &#8211; I was hoping for a higher average, given how easy the quiz was (in my opinion). \u00a0Two students did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106166,106190,1000],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grad-algorithms","tag-tcs","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}