{"id":1420,"date":"2013-05-12T16:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2013-05-12T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T16:13:54","slug":"same-assignment-different-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Same assignment, different students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written quite a lot previously about what you can learn about student misunderstandings and student engagement by looking at their use of computer-marked assiggnments. See my posts under &#8216;question analysis&#8217; and &#8216;student engagement&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I had cause to take this slightly further. We have two interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs) that test the same material, and that are known to be of very similar difficulty. Some of the questions in the two assignments are exactly the same, most are slightly different.\u00a0 But when we see very different patterns of use, this can be attributed to the fact that the two iCMAs are used on different modules, with very different student populations.<\/p>\n<p>Compare the two figures shown below. These simply show the number of questions started (by all students) on each day that the assignment is open. The first figure shows a situation where most questions are not started until close to the cut-off date. The students are behind, struggling and driven by the due-date (I know some of these things from other evidence).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1421\" title=\"Figure 7a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7a-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7a-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7a.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second figure shows a situation in which most questions are started as soon as the iCMA opens &#8211; the students are ready and waiting! These students do better by various measures &#8211; more on this to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1423\" title=\"Figure 7b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7b-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7b-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-7b.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written quite a lot previously about what you can learn about student misunderstandings and student engagement by looking at their use of computer-marked assiggnments. See my posts under &#8216;question analysis&#8217; and &#8216;student engagement&#8217;. Recently, I had cause to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,7],"tags":[368,346],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-analysis","category-student-engagement","tag-question-analysis","tag-student-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}