Today (Monday), my Biology students
were asked to watch the video review and to take the associated online quiz by
Friday. I gave them the option of using
class time to complete the assignment or watching it on their own outside of
class. Out of 128 students, 72
completed the assignment (56%) and 56 did not (44%). This is exactly what I was afraid of if I
made the video homework, but I’m puzzled why they didn’t watch the video when
given class time to do so. I will
investigate this further.
The reason I made the quiz was to
determine if the students were able to learn the important information that was
presented in the video lecture and to determine who watched the video. There were 12 questions; eight multiple
choice, three fill in the blank and one short answer. Use of the video lecture while taking the
quiz was permitted. Very few students
took advantage of this tool and did quite poorly on the quiz. When I averaged the scores of all my students
that took the quiz, it was only a 61.5% which is unacceptable. For those of you interested in more details
my classes are tracked with my Practical Biology classes averaging a 50% while
my General Biology classes averaged a 73%.
I am hoping that the scores were low
because this was their first time using a video review and taking this type of
online quiz. In order to provide my
students with more practice on how to learn content from a video I will
reemphasize to them that they CAN use the video to help them on their
quiz. The quiz has been reassigned to
students that would like to improve their score, and for students that received
a zero for not completing the assignment by its due date. I hope to see better
results this time!
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