Sunday, February 1, 2015

Differentiation Quest

The Assignment:
Provide sample data from student results for a course within your field. The data can be entirely theoretical and written out in text form.
Upon completion of the data, discuss the method used to group students based on abilities, strategies utilized to examine student performance, and areas requiring modification of instruction.
Next, focus on the individual level. How could the data be referenced to identify the needs of each student? How could the settings of the LMS be used to create personalized learning paths? Note that a personalized learning path does not necessarily mean one student sees a resource no one else does, but that the overall order and selection of work one student does may be entirely unique from the order and assignments others did. Once the product is complete, share the results in your blog.
Here is data from a practice multiple choice for my AP English Language course.  This was probably our first attempt at doing multiple choice.  The scores are low, but that was to be expected.


1.  I would group students based on the questions they got wrong.  Each of the six questions represent a specific type.  With these "types," it would be advantageous to group students together so they can work on how to solve the specific type of problem that they are missing.

2.  Then, in an LMS, I would create a set of assignments for specific types of problems.  This may be a combination of exercises, websites, resources, activities.  Because the tasks are based on the students' strengths and weaknesses, the tasks are individualized.

3.  Finally, we would do another assessment with similar types of questions and see how students do.  Another means of doing this activity would be to jigsaw the activity.  In a jigsaw, students could actually be paired with a student who is stronger, and then they can create a teaching module via some presentation tool discussing how to solve a specific problem.  They could define the words, key terms, etc.  




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