{"id":412,"date":"2011-03-30T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=412"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:39:17","slug":"repeated-and-blank-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Repeated and blank responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-413\" title=\"plot-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-4-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-4.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The figure shown\u00a0on the left requires a bit of explaining. The three\u00a0columns represent student\u00a0responses at 1st, 2nd and 3rd attempt to a short-answer free-text question in formative use.\u00a0Green represents correct responses; red\/orange\/yellow respresent incorrect responses. The reason I&#8217;ve used different colours here is to enable me to indicate repeated responses. Where a colour is identical from column to column, this means that an incorrect response from a first or second response was repeated exactly at second and\/or third attempt. The colour grey represents responses that were completely blank. The figure shows that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at first attempt, four responses (0.9% of the total of 449) were blank;<\/li>\n<li>at second attempt, 43 responses (17.8% of the total of 241) were identical with responses given at the first attempt, with 7 responses (2.9%) blank;<\/li>\n<li>at third attempt, 54 responses (27.4% of the total of 197) were identical with responses given at the second attempt, with 3 responses (1.5%) blank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reasons given by students (in interviews) for leaving the response box blank and repeating responses include just wanting to get to the final worked-example, not understanding the question and not understanding the feedback.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-71.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-415\" title=\"plot-7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-71-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-71-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-71-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/plot-71.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The figure on the right is for exactly the same question, but in low-stakes summative use. Not surprisingly, the\u00a0proportion of repeated and blank responses is smaller. Now<\/p>\n<li>at first attempt,\u00a0three responses (0.2% of the total of 1327) were blank;<\/li>\n<li>at second attempt,\u00a018 responses (4.5% of the total of 398) were identical with responses given at the first attempt, again with\u00a03 responses (0.8%) blank;<\/li>\n<li>at third attempt,\u00a013 responses (4.9% of the total of 266) were identical with responses given at the second attempt, with 2 responses (0.8%) blank.<\/li>\n<p>In summative use, students are only likely to leave a response blank or repeat a response if they have absolutely no idea how to proceed i.e. if they don&#8217;t understand the question or the feedback provided. There&#8217;s a lesson for us there. I think there is also a lesson in the deeper engagement illustrated in summative use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The figure shown\u00a0on the left requires a bit of explaining. The three\u00a0columns represent student\u00a0responses at 1st, 2nd and 3rd attempt to a short-answer free-text question in formative use.\u00a0Green represents correct responses; red\/orange\/yellow respresent incorrect responses. The reason I&#8217;ve used different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=412\">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":[4,7],"tags":[113,112,346],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-assessment","category-student-engagement","tag-blank-responses","tag-repeating-of-responses","tag-student-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}