Enhancing Student Readiness in FYS-1001 Mechanics Through the Readiness Assurance Process

Børge Irgens: 

When moving away from lectures, ensuring students come to class prepared to do other activities can be challenging.

In this talk, I present a case from the third-semester course FYS-1001 Mechanics at the University of Tromsø, where I have implemented a technique called the Readiness Assurance Process using individual and collaborative two-stage tests to encourage students' pre-class preparation. Utilizing data on time spent on pre-class preparation and individual and group test scores, I assess the effectiveness of this teaching strategy in ensuring student readiness.

Additionally, by analyzing recordings of group discussions, I aim to explore the learning potential of the collaborative exam stage.

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Børge Irgens / The Arctic University of Norway

Bio

Børge Irgens is a PhD student at the Arctic University of Norway. 

The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE

The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 every other week (odd week numbers) at CCSE.

The seminar will be maximum one hour, often closer to half an hour. It is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion.

Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.

Published Oct. 23, 2023 12:08 PM - Last modified Oct. 23, 2023 12:12 PM