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hi
everybody, I've made some changes to the Readiness assessment at June's
suggestion, and I've also put up a page at the site with a sample Quandary file
so that anyone who wants to make a specific Readiness assessment for their own
course will find it easy to do so:
IMPORTANT
QUESTION: how would people like the "hours budgeted" question to be weighted on
the Readiness assessment?
here is how
the question is weighted now: if students say they have 5-6 hours per week for
the class that is a "neutral" response, and if they say they have 7-8 hours that
is a positive response (plus 3 points) - if they say they don't know how much
time they have that is a negative response (minus 1), and if they say they just
have 2-4 hours per week to spend that is also a negative response (minus 5).
sorry if that is confusing; there is a chart below to make that more
clear.
June would
like us to have 12 hours be the expected time commitment, so that the response
would be rated: 2-6 (minus 5), 7-9 (no change), 10-12 (plus
3).
I know that
12 hours is way more than I would ever expect from my studnets, but if most
folks really are expecting 12 hours per week from their students, I will
try to find a way to change the Assessment to reflect that general
expectation.
so, in order
to figure out how to proceed here, could people please let me know how many
hours YOU expect from your students weekly in your online course? if I can get a
sense of the range of expectations, I will try to come up with a question that
reflects that range (hopefully!)
if there is
a huge range of expectations that cannot be lumped together, I will replace it
with another question.
thanks,
Laura
5. How many hours will you have available each week
to do the work for this online course? |
2-4 hours/week for this class |
|
minus 5 |
5-6 hours/week for this class |
|
no change |
7-8 hours/week for this class |
|
plus 3 |
I am not sure how much time I will have |
|
minus 1 |