When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems
We investigate student-chosen, multi-level homework in our Integrated Learning Environment for Mechanics [1] built using the LON-CAPA [2] open-source learning system. Multi-level refers to problems categorized as easy, medium, and hard. Problem levels were determined a priori based on the knowledge...
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| author | Teodorescu, Raluca E. Seaton, Daniel Cardamone, Carolin Rayyan, Saif Abbott, Jonathan E. Barrantes, Analia Pawl, Andrew Pritchard, David E. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Teodorescu, Raluca E. Seaton, Daniel Cardamone, Carolin Rayyan, Saif Abbott, Jonathan E. Barrantes, Analia Pawl, Andrew Pritchard, David E. |
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| description | We investigate student-chosen, multi-level homework in our Integrated Learning Environment for Mechanics [1] built using the LON-CAPA [2] open-source learning system. Multi-level refers to problems categorized as easy, medium, and hard. Problem levels were determined a priori based on the knowledge needed to solve them [3]. We analyze these problems using three measures: time-per-problem, LON-CAPA difficulty, and item difficulty measured by item response theory. Our analysis of student behavior in this environment suggests that time-per-problem is strongly dependent on problem category, unlike either score-based measures. We also found trends in student choice of problems, overall effort, and efficiency across the student population. Allowing students choice in problem solving seems to improve their motivation; 70% of students worked additional problems for which no credit was given. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/783522022-09-30T11:28:23Z When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems Teodorescu, Raluca E. Seaton, Daniel Cardamone, Carolin Rayyan, Saif Abbott, Jonathan E. Barrantes, Analia Pawl, Andrew Pritchard, David E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of Digital Learning Prtichard, David Teodorescu, Raluca E. Seaton, Daniel Cardamone, Carolin Rayyan, Saif Abbott, Jonathan E. Barrantes, Analia Pritchard, David E. We investigate student-chosen, multi-level homework in our Integrated Learning Environment for Mechanics [1] built using the LON-CAPA [2] open-source learning system. Multi-level refers to problems categorized as easy, medium, and hard. Problem levels were determined a priori based on the knowledge needed to solve them [3]. We analyze these problems using three measures: time-per-problem, LON-CAPA difficulty, and item difficulty measured by item response theory. Our analysis of student behavior in this environment suggests that time-per-problem is strongly dependent on problem category, unlike either score-based measures. We also found trends in student choice of problems, overall effort, and efficiency across the student population. Allowing students choice in problem solving seems to improve their motivation; 70% of students worked additional problems for which no credit was given. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-0757931) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant DUE-1044294) 2013-04-11T18:23:17Z 2013-04-11T18:23:17Z 2012 2011-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 0094-243X 1551-7616 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78352 Teodorescu, Raluca E. et al. “When Students Can Choose Easy, Medium, or Hard Homework Problems.” 2012. 81–84. ©2012 American Institute of Physics https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-3897 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5961-4969 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5697-1496 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5430-2640 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3679999 AIP Conference Proceedings Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Institute of Physics (AIP) Pritchard via Chris Sherratt |
| spellingShingle | Teodorescu, Raluca E. Seaton, Daniel Cardamone, Carolin Rayyan, Saif Abbott, Jonathan E. Barrantes, Analia Pawl, Andrew Pritchard, David E. When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems |
| title | When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems |
| title_full | When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems |
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| title_full_unstemmed | When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems |
| title_short | When students can choose easy, medium, or hard homework problems |
| title_sort | when students can choose easy medium or hard homework problems |
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