{"id":994,"date":"2012-08-20T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=994"},"modified":"2012-08-20T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:18:16","slug":"science-started-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Science started here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadly, the final presentation of S154 Science starts here<\/em> has now ended. It was a 10-credit module so didn’t fit well with the 30-credit study intensity that is necessary for English students to get funding. But\u00a0it was a lovely little module – popular with students and tutors alike, and highly effective in preparing students to study the longer S104 Exploring science<\/em>.<\/p>\n

S154’s assessment strategy was written to be complementary to that of S104, so it was at first something of a mystery when a ‘different’ student behaviour was observed on S154. The figures below show the way in which three individual (but typical) students interacted with a lightly-weighted \u00a0S154 iCMA. The red dot indicates the date on which the student first engaged with the iCMA and the blue dots indicate subsequent interactions.<\/p>\n

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‘Student 1’ is typical of many students, on S154 and all other modules – the last-minute merchants! (spot the iCMA’s cut-off date…). ‘Student 2’ is also typical of many students on many modules – the student starts the iCMA and completes the questions that they can; then over the next week or so, they use the feedback to improve on their answers to the other questions.<\/p>\n

‘Student 3’ is typical for S154 but not for other modules. How odd I thought! But it turns out that there is a very simple explanation. S154 was an introductory module, with careful scaffolding. When students had completed Chapter\u00a02 they were\u00a0advised to attempt the first 4 questions on the iCMA; when they had completed Chapter 3 they were\u00a0advised to attempt the next 2 questions; when they had completed Chapter 4 they were\u00a0advised\u00a0to attempt the final 4 questions. And that was exactly what they did! If surprises some people, but I have found\u00a0on many occasions\u00a0that students actually do what they think that they are expected to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadly, the final presentation of S154 Science starts here has now ended. It was a 10-credit module so didn’t fit well with the 30-credit study intensity that is necessary for English students to get funding. But\u00a0it was a lovely little … Continue reading →<\/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":[7],"tags":[17,221,222],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-engagement","tag-icmas","tag-s154","tag-scaffolding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}