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include: 11. Upcoming level 3 workshop: 12. Big Fun Ex*m PrepA
Student-Centered Technique for Creating Ex*ms as a Learning
Activity A presentation by Larry Short 13. I have used this
technique for several years and so I am writing it up in case it
might be useful to anyone else.The basic principles are: Students
make up a set of questions for possible inclusion onan ex*m The
questions are all posted in a Question Bank that classmembers can
study to prepare for the ex*m. I select the appropriate number of
questions, clean them up alittle, and enter them into a test in
Blackboard. 14. The basic advantages to the students are: They get
practice in anticipating the kinds of questions thatwill show up on
an ex*m. This skill is characteristic ofstudents who routinely
score high on ex*ms. In order to make good questions the students
mustunderstand the material in greater depth. Students know they
have had a high-level of input into theex*m, so it is not something
they resent because it is beingdone to them. They have some
ownership of it. They are notalienated from the ex*m and this
minimizes test anxiety. 15. Testimonial from Kinsey Blakemore, Fall
2010Honestly, I wish all teachers would do their tests and
assignments in a similar manner. I actually get to do some
thinking! I felt confident and prepared for this exam, and Im
usually prone to test anxiety. My usual method for exam studying
involved, I hate to say it, memorizing the textbook. However, this
test was different. The assignments we did helped me a lot because
I got the basic concepts of the chapters from doing them. Also, I
loved creating questions for the exam because in doing so, I gained
even more understanding of the material. I found that in order to
create a good question about something, I really had to understand
it first. It was also helpful to go through and answer my
classmates questions. I got an idea of what I knew well, and what I
needed more understanding of.Im really enjoying this class and
learning a lot. Thank you for not doing the typical read the book
and answer the questions type of assignments! 16. Notes: The
assignment instructions follow and then there are excerpts from
ex*ms from this semester. I do not need to worry about letting the
ex*ms out because they will be different every semester. It takes
me about 3 hours to select questions from the Question Bank and
turn them into an ex*m on Blackboard. The quality of the questions
provides me assessment information about how well students are
understanding and remembering the material. 17. Assignment 7, Big
FunThe better you know how to prepare for exams, then the betteryou
will do in school. I dont want to go so far as to say thatyou will
have more fun too, but you will certainly have lessstress. ;-) For
that reason, this assignment is devoted topracticing how to prepare
for exams and, not exactlycoincidentally, actually preparing for
our first exam. 18. What I would like you to do is to create a set
of questions on coursematerial thus far that would be appropriate
for inclusion on anexam. Some of these questions will be used on
our firstexam. Therefore, you have the opportunity to shape the
exam and Ihope you will take the initiative to create an exam like
you think an examought to be. Have you complained about the
pointless and unfair examsteachers have given you in the past?
Well, heres your chance. Pleasethink about what course material it
is reasonable to expect people toknow and what kinds of questions
will measure whether they knowit. Please think of the best exam
questions you have ever seen and tryto write ones like that. If you
have no idea what a good exam questionwould be then please email me
some of your samples and we will talkabout them.By the way , if you
dont know what a good exam question is then Ipredict that you are
stressed out whenever you have to prepare for anexam-so lets take
this opportunity to better understand good examquestions. 19.
Please make 5 Multiple Choice questions on each decade from
the1900s through the 1940s. That is 5 decades for 25 questions.
Forthe content you should trust your own experience of the videos,
but youshould also read through our classmates assignments. To
sweeten thepot, you can get 10 PTPs for reading our classmates
"life stories" forA4, We Are Forrest Gump and Replying to three
that you think had veryinteresting lives (and did the best job of
making material that helpedyou remember the events of the time).
You can get another 10 PTPsby reading our classmates A5 assignments
and again Replying to threethat you thought were especially
interesting and effective. These PTPopportunities must be done by
Wednesday OCT 6 so that you canspend Thursday and Friday making the
25 questions. 20. The questions you submit will be scored on your
apparent effortto create good exam questions, so please read all of
theseinstructions carefully for advice on what constitutes
goodquestions. Also, part of what makes a good multiple
choicequestion is that the wrong answers are somewhat plausible,and
not ridiculous. It is not a good question if someone canfigure it
out just because 3 of the possible answers arenonsense. 21. Please
subscribe to the Goldilocks and the 3 Bears school ofquestion
design: Not too hard / Not too easy / Justright. What I hope that
means is that we are not looking forquestions that are so picky and
hard that only God couldanswer them (on a good day ;-)) Nor are we
looking forgiveaway questions that someone could answer without
everhaving opened the book or done an assignment in thiscourse.
What we ARE looking for are fair questions thatmeasure something
that everybody who has given the coursetheir fair attention should
be able to answer. I hope you havenoticed that I dont think much of
asking you to memorizethings just for the sake of memorizing them.
Rather I ask youto take the ideas from the course material and
applythem. That is what I hope you can do with your questions.
Iguarantee you that if you wait until the last minute and thentry
to pull random questions from the book that you will notdo a good
job on this assignment. 22. Please pay attention also to the wrong
answers in yourmultiple choice questions and make them
semi-plausible(because if they are ridiculous the question is just
agiveaway). Asking people to fill in the blank in a sentenceyou
have taken from the book is not the kind of exam Iwould want to
take. Asking people to list the 4 items blah-blah-blah is not a
good question. Picking random pickyfacts from the book is not a
good way to go either. Thesekinds of bad questions will NOT receive
full credit. Askingpeople to use the material to demonstrate that
theyunderstand it is a good exam question, in my opinion. 23. I
have tried to make assignments that were more interactive than the
usual " summarize the chapter" assignments, and now it is your turn
to try to make interesting, engaging exam questions. Under no
circumstances should you ask any questions that require people to
regurgitate from the textbook without necessarily even knowing what
they are saying, questions such as, "List the four periods of
Athenian democracy." However, you could do something like, "Please
put these 4 periods in chronological order," or " In which of these
periods did each of these persons live." The principle is that if
you understand the material, then you can formulate questions that
measure whether somebody else does. Dont ask me how I know this,
but memorization without understanding is very stressful because
you never know if you have memorized the right thing! Its also
perfectly OK to use some humor to lighten the tone, but the humor
should not be the main point or override the question. 24. I am
fully aware from experience that when one tries to create these
kinds of questions one occasionally creates questions that are
ambiguous or unclear or dont measure what one thought they were
going to measure. Thats OK. Try anyway. You will not be penalized
for trying. Nor will you be penalized for trying to design any kind
of creative questions that you think would make for a fair
exam.Please post your questions for 40 points in the A7, 25 Good
Questions discussion. Please do not look at other peoples questions
until you have posted your own. 25. When you are truly ready for an
exam you should be able to predict a high percentage (say 80% or
more) of the questions just by knowing what if the important
material and what makes a fair question. By doing this assignment,
you will be doing the kind of preparation that should be done for a
major exam in any serious college level course. Once you have done
this kind of preparation the exam should not hold any surprises for
you, which is the whole point, isnt it? 26. HUM 101W05, fall 2010,
Literature and Cinema20. Charles Foster Kane, the main character
in24. Which war consisted of Greek soldiers hiding 28. According to
our book the movie When Harry Citizen Kane, was widely believed to
be based inside a wooden horse? Met Sally is considered a
_________? on which real-life American millionaire? a. Joseph
Pulitzera. Vietnam a. Action Movieb. William Randolph Hearstb.
Koreanb. Comedyc. John D. Rockefellerc. Frenchc. Romantic Comedyd.
Conrad Hiltond. Trojand. Western21. What is generally considered to
be the *worlds*25. Justice for some defendants is the blind lady
29. ____________ who attains auteur status chooses first true
novel?dropping her scales, what would this quote bethe material,
write the script, and have totalconsidered? control over the plot
and characters.a. Don Quixote, by Cervantes Saavedraa. Metaphora.
Script Writerb. The Tale of Genji, by Lady Murasakib. Sonnetb.
Directorc. The Aeneid, by Virgilc. Concept c. Actord. King Arthur
and the Knights of the Round Table, bymultiple authorsd.
Masterpiece d. Actress22. What is a long narrative poem telling the
actions and adventures of a hero who exemplifies 26. When dealing
with Cinema the appropriate term30. An extreme version of a hero
who transcends strength, courage, and cunning, but not for camera
is? regular human limitations and may be endowed necessarily moral
virtue?with a supernatural special power.a. Tracking shota. Lyrical
Poetrya. Sacrificial lambb. Freeze Framesb. Poemb. Trojan Horsec.
Polytheismc. Epicc. Superherod. Cinematographyd. Sonnetd. American
Dream27. The first international star that wore baggy23. The story
The Iliad was traditionally attributed totrousers and shows that
were too big for him whom? was?a. Homera. Arthur Knightb.
Solzhenitsyn b. Fred Astairec. Chekhovc. Charles Chaplind. Sappho
d. Orson Welles 27. SSM 201 W03, Twentieth Century geniuses, 24.
Who presided over the largest empire in d. The consumption, selling
of or Fall 201history with 25% of the worlds land distribution of
motion pictures mass?20. Harry S. Truman was our 33rd President; he
took office after what Presidenta. White Dutch Settlers28. John
Steinbeck was famous for writing died?b. Queen Victoria which of
the following books which wasa. Franklin Roosevelt later turned
into a film?c. President McKinleyb. Herbert Hoovera. The Grapes of
Wrathd. Adolph Hitlerc. Calvin Coolidge b. The Dust Bowld. William
McKinleyc. Gold Diggers of 193325. With Womens suffrage women did
which of the following to help theird. Im No Angel rights?21. Orson
Wells directed and starred in what movie? a. Chaining themselves to
railings 29. Who became Prime Minister of Britain ina. Citizen Kane
b. Throwing themselves in front of race the 1940s and became a
symbol of horses British Resistance?b. Casablancac. Picketed
government institutionsa. Winston Churchillc. Gone with the Windd.
Paraded down New York Ave.b. Adolph Hitlerd. Shotgun Williee. All
of the Abovec. Queen Victoria d. Francesco Madera22. Immigration
was more common in what country more so than any other country
26.Barney Oldfield was known for in the world combined, and is
still true accomplishing which of the following? today?30. Which
first lady went up in an airplanea. Saving himself on the Titanic
with a black man to show the worlda. Europethat they were capable
of flying in ourb. Published Alexanders Rag Time Band Armed
Services?b. Chinac. First person to reach the North Polea. Mrs.
Kennedyc. Russia d. Setting the land speed record b. Mrs.
Eisenhowerd. United States c. Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt27. What did
the 18th Amendment outlaw?d. Mrs. Howard Taft23. The largest
occupation in the early a. The consumption, selling of or 1900s
was? distribution of alcoholic beveragesa. Factory workersb. The
consumption, selling of orb. Seamstressesdistribution of comic
booksc. Car makers c. The consumption, selling of or distribution
of tobaccod. Farmers 28. PHL 105 Ethics, Fall 201020. Why was the
final cause the most 24. The four branches of Philosophy include:
28. According to Aristotle, what is theimportant to Aristotle? Page
437metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, and purpose of humans?
Answer: page 438*It allows us to view the purpose.______. Answer:
page 15 Moral of the Moral of the StoryStory To procreateIt is the
final product. Reasoning*To reasonAristotle liked to eat
muffins.*Logic To destroyIt was the most natural cause. RealityTo
create Contemplation21. According to Aristotle what is the purpose
of man? Page 439 29. How does Aristotle define happiness? 25. What
is a Golem originally made of? Answer: page 447 Moral of the
StoryTo be above the reasoning of women. Answer: page 77 Moral of
the StoryPleasure*To think rationally throughout his life to*Clay
develop moral goodness.Indulgences StrawTo do what he wants when he
wants.Contentment BrickTo be good at everything you do which
*Anything good for man makes you morally good. Wood30. Which of
these three men said that22. What used to be considered murder? 26.
The unexamined life is worse than women were equal to men?(What is
a Person)death. Who said this? *PlatoKilling a person from another
tribe. PlatoSocrates*Killing a person from your own tribe.
*SocratesAristotleKilling both a person from your own
tribeAristotleand another tribe.None of the above PhaedrusAll of
the above. 27. What poison did Socrates take to die23.
Philosophically speaking a persons view after his conviction?
Answer: page 77 of reality is what we call: (Answer found Moral of
the Story on page 406)CyanidePlatos theory of
formsArsenic*metaphysics *HemlockmaterialismNone of the
aboveirony
