Re: What's education about today? (Was: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?)

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Brandon
At 10:04 AM -0700 10/22/04, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: As was very well pointed out, getting a BA has become a necessity for students who want to make a living sufficient to support themselves and a family on in today's economy in the US. Yes, we do have different students, we have a many coming

Re: What's education about today? (Was: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?)

2004-10-22 Thread Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
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What's education about today? (Was: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?)

2004-10-22 Thread Marc Carter
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Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Okami
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RE: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-22 Thread Marc Carter
-Original Message- From: Christine L. Grela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:05 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: improving student performance and grades through extra credit? (sorry for any cross posting) Dear TIPSters, I think thi

Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-22 Thread Deb Briihl
I do the same as most other people have mentioned. I give back the scantron and test and ask them to correct the answers (but I only give back 1/4 of the points - each question is worth 2 points and they can get back .5 for each correct response). They must give a reason for why something is wro

Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread FRICKLE, RUTH
Title: Message Vincent Prohaska wrote:  "Sometimes I have offered to downweight the first exam score of students who do better on the next exam (for example, if the first exam was worth 20% of the final grade, I might offer to cut it's weigth to 15% or 10% if the student's second grade improv

Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Vincent Prohaska
Hi All, I've gone to using quizzes in each class to try to get students to keep up with the reading and prepare them for exams. But grades on the first exam especially are often low. I dislike extra credit because I find students often do it at the expense of keeping up with the regular classwo

Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Linda Walsh
I have tried setting the top score earned on an exam as the "100% " score, and have also had students provide written explanations of the correct answer for each test item for half-credit, but the "adjustment" I most often make, which has worked fairly well for me, is based on looking very care

RE: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Frigo, Lenore
I've been facing this similar issue with low test grades. I decided to give the students regular quizzes on the chapter readings, leading up to the tests. These little quizzes are extra points, but definitely earned by studying. The average test grade went up by 5 points after doing this (but

Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Michael Scoles
A now-retired colleague of mine said that "extra" credit work would only make sense after successful completion of the expected work.  A student who is failing isn't doing the expected work.   On the other hand, an unusually high percentage of failures suggests that something might be going on th

Re: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
I don't give "extra credit" but I do offer a make-up policy ONLY to students who come to see me 1:1--this could be difficult if you have too many students. For half credit, for MC items they have to write two sentences for me: (1) why the answer I say is "correct" is the best one of the choi

RE: improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Gary Klatsky
] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:05 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: improving student performance and grades through extra credit? (sorry for any cross posting) Dear TIPSters, I think this topic may have been touched on before, but I would like to get some input. I have

improving student performance and grades through extra credit?

2004-10-21 Thread Christine L. Grela
(sorry for any cross posting) Dear TIPSters, I think this topic may have been touched on before, but I would like to get some input. I have just had my Intro to Psych class finish their midterm exams, and overall, the class is scoring about 50%. In previous years, I have curved my exams (the