{"id":1425,"date":"2013-05-16T19:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:59:55","slug":"same-assignment-different-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Same assignment, different students 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1420\">post<\/a>, take a look at the two figures below. They show how students&#8217; overall score on an iCMA varied with the date they submitted. These figures are for the same two assignments as in the previous post (very similar assignments, rather different students).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1428\" title=\"Figure 9a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9a.png 480w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9a-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9a-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top figure (above) is depressingly familiar. The students who submit early all do very well &#8211; they probably didn&#8217;t need to study the module at all! The rest are rushing to get the assignment done, just before the due date &#8211; and lots of them don&#8217;t do very well.<\/p>\n<p>I am very pleased with the lower figure. Here students are doing the assignment steadily all the while it is available &#8211; and with the exception of a small number who were probably prompted to have a go on the due date by a reminder email we sent, they\u00a0do pretty similarly, irrespective of when they submitted. This is how assignments should perform!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1429\" title=\"Figure 9b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9b.png 480w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9b-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Figure-9b-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m aware that my interpretation may seem simplistic, but we have other evidence that the\u00a0first batch of students are overcommitted &#8211; they are also younger and have lower previous qualifications &#8211; so it all fits.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, following yesterday&#8217;s JISC webinar on learning analytics I&#8217;m beginning to think that this is how I should be describing the work that I&#8217;ve previously categorised as &#8216;Question analysis&#8217; and \u00a0&#8216;Student engagement&#8217;. However we describe this sort of analysis, we must do more of it &#8211; it&#8217;s powerful stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my previous post, take a look at the two figures below. They show how students&#8217; overall score on an iCMA varied with the date they submitted. These figures are for the same two assignments as in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1425\">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":[280,368,346],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-analysis","category-student-engagement","tag-learning-analytics","tag-question-analysis","tag-student-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","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=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}