Your exam will be held on Sept 17, 2013. We are providing you an opportunity to provide input into the design of the exam.
Our Exam Parameters
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Students
will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the science concepts represented
in problems assessed during the class, for homework, in-chapter and end-of-chapter problems in Chapter 2. In other words, students should be able to recognize that the problems represent
concepts involved and should be able to communicate
· Students will take an individual
exam; no collaborative exam will be allowed
I believe that we should define significant terms that are in the Chapter 2. We can write three to four sentences about the term, talking about what it is and significance towards science.
ReplyDeleteI think our test should be a combination of multiple choice and short answer over the concepts covered in Chapter 2 as well as the concepts discussed in class. I believe that some sort of "science talk" should be incorporated into our grade due to the fact that our class is based on that logic.
ReplyDeleteWhile I think that we would totally ace a science talk exam, I understand why the exam cannot be a collaborative effort.
ReplyDeleteWith regards to the fact that our ultimate purpose is to learn to teach with an integrated style involving all subjects, I think our exam should have more to do with the implementation of the things we've learned both in the chapters, but mostly in the labs and science talks in our own teaching endeavors. In other words, I think our exam should consist of a few essay questions in which we describe how we can use the teaching strategies behind the concepts we learned in science to better our instructional capacity as educators. I think this is important because most of us in this class are not science concentrations, but can see the value in incorporating science and the idea behind scientific thinking (being an explorer of learning)into our Language Arts classrooms.
An example of an essay question I have in mind might be something like: "What does it mean to be a scientist and how can you incorporate scientific thinking and problem solving into your instruction as a middle grades educator?"
To be fair, since this is a content class, I think a few multiple choice and short answer questions dealing with the actual concepts from the book are fine, but I don't think it should be the bulk of the test because those concepts are not what I am hoping to get out of this class, but rather how to be an integrated educator using the methods of scientific reasoning to teach my students to be proactive learners and thinkers.
I'd like it if elements of all the above-mentioned ideas were somehow incoporated into our exam. They're all great suggestions in that they test us both as students and future educators; they challenge conceptual understanding and promote critical thinking.
ReplyDeleteI would like for our exam to involve some type of experiment example. Not necessarily an experiment that we actually perform but possibly a thinking experiment, like we discussed in class. The test could give us an example experiment and we decide what we would test, our hypothesis and what we would expect to happen and why. Alot of what we have done in class as been based on thinking for ourselves in experiments and discussions so I think it would be cool to incorporate these things into the test.
ReplyDeleteI think our test should have short answer questions over the topics we have discussed in class, and multiple choice questions for the content material. An essay question that required us to give reasons as to why this material is important for us to know would be interesting. Or, as teachers reason how we would explain to our students why the material is important to know.
ReplyDeleteI believe that our exams should consist of multiple choice questions that pertain to the inofrmation we discussed in class about science talks and chpaters 1 and 2. I also feel that indivual short experiments should be one part of the exams as well to get a better understanding on how well we come up with questions, hypothesis, record data, etc to make sure that we are good mebers for our groups. These experiments are mostly what we do in class and learning from one another. Furthermore, we should have essay questions on topics regarding working in groups and completing experiments. These are just a few ideas.
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