I am currently working part-time as a Chemistry teacher for
a high school in Salt Lake City, and as part of this job, I have noticed two
challenges I faced as a teacher: 1. It is difficult to match the material
students are studying to their capabilities 2. Being grossly outnumbered by
students, it is hard as a teacher to provide quick feedback for students so
that they can correct errors in understanding early on.
To solve those challenges I have created a review tool which
quizzes students on different types of Chemistry problems; when students give
their answers to these questions, they immediately see whether they got the
problem right or wrong, and then they are randomly assigned another problem to
work on. As they continue answering
problems, the program begins weighting the problems in such a way that the
problems the student struggles with are asked more frequently than the ones the
student has already mastered. After the
student finishes her study session, her results are automatically posted to a
google doc so that the teacher can now tell which areas his students are
struggling in so that he can better use time set aside in class to review in
the most efficient manner possible.
workboook: http://files.gove.net/shares/files/14w/mikedoug/Review.xlsm
write up: http://files.gove.net/shares/files/14w/mikedoug/Writeupforreals.pdf
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