Student-Created Physics Problems as an Independent and Equitable Assessment Tool

Student representational competence and self-assessment when solving physics problems

Student success in solving physics problems is related to the representational format of the problem. We study student representational competence in two large-lecture algebra-based introductory university physics courses with approximately 600 participants total. We examined student performance on homework problems given in four different representational formats mathematical, pictorial, graph...

An Assessment Tool for Student Design Projects

This paper presents a method developed by the author to assess student design projects. The method involves identifying assessment elements, weighting the elements, and grading the work as if had only one author. Data supplied by the students is used to identify the relative work put into each element. This allows individual grades to be calculated in a fair and consistent means. Sufficient bac...

Student-produced podcasts as an assessment tool: an example from geomorphology

Problems with competence assessment as it applies to student nurses.

Nursing has enthusiastically embraced the concept of continuing competence as the key means of reassuring the public of the overall quality of the profession. There are many definitions of competence and a number of nursing regulatory bodies have put into operation, a definition which is reductionist rather then holistic in nature. Not surprisingly, and as a consequence many nurses, including n...

Impact of Podcasts as Professional Learning: Teacher Created, Student Created, and Professional Development Podcasts

Until now, research on podcasting in education mostly examined teacher created podcasts in K-12 and higher education. This paper explores podcasts in professional learning across several genres of podcasts. Using a popular typology of podcasts, teacher created, student created and professional development podcasts (King & Gura, 2007), this paper compares, contrasts and reveals the potential of ...