Essentially, students are rating their confidence level regarding each learning target. I’m fully expecting a lot of “no idea” responses and that’s okay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But students often think that they know more than they do. Or, the type of high achieving students at my college might be reluctant to reveal what they do not know. Maybe I should let the students submit the survey anonymously? At this point, I want to get a sense of the overall class. Soon enough I’ll gain a perspective into each student’s confidence levels through their actual assignments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The major benefit for students comes at the end of the course when they fill out the same knowledge survey they took at the beginning … Their awareness enhances their confidence and self-efficacy as learners, which in turns fosters their self-regulation.<\/p>Linda Nilson, Specifications Grading<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAfter all, my main outcome for this course is for students to get over their intimidation of computational thinking. Raising their confidence to learn programming is what I’m after. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inspired by Linda Nilson’s excellent book Specifications Grading, I’m implementing several new ideas in my Fall term course. One of those is an ungraded start-of-course knowledge survey. In many ways, this assignment is a metacognitive task that helps instills thinking about the course in the students’ minds at the beginning of the course. I’m cautioning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}