Saturday, November 22, 2014

Flipped Learning

Assignment Title:  Week 5 Blog 1



Flipped-Learning Toolkit: 5 Steps for Formative Assessment
By Jon Bergmann - November 18, 2014


This article illustrates how an instructor can perform individualized assessment to see which students mastered assignments. This flipped classroom method and stop instructors from carrying tons of papers home for grading and it gives them more time to work with students individually.  The instructor is able to customize learning as well as assessments that will make more sense to each students’ learning style.

The video gave 5-steps that can be followed to check for student mastery.

1.     Students are assigned exercises to complete based on one objective with answers ranging from easy to answer to more difficult.
2.     Students are given instructions to solve the odd or even problems or even a mixture of the two.
3.     In checking for mastery, the instructor will select a problem the student has worked and asked student to explain or show detail on paper.  When student explains work, the instructor can determine if student really understands the concept or if they continue to struggle.  Also, the instructor can tell if student cheated.
4.     If student fails mastery, remediation is the next step, instructor reviews assignment and plans a second mastery assignment.
5.     The second mastery is scheduled for students who didn’t master first assignments.

According to Bergman, “…the greatest benefit of the mastery check is that each student has to demonstrate mastery of each objective and, if not, is provided immediate feedback.” However, this mastery concept is similar to the developmental math assignments used for my class. Students have to master homework and quizzes assigned in MyLabsPlus by Pearson before they are eligible to take final.  The assignments and quizzes are automatically graded in MyLabsPlus and students are required to score 90% on Quizzes 1, 2 and 3 before eligible to take written assessment. Homework assignments are optional but recommended for practice.

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