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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I get questions all the time about why I give weekly quizzes and if it will hurt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">your letter grade in the end because your friends’ lecturers aren’t giving<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quizzes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I’ve gotten a few questions this semester about it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>This is my 31<sup>st</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">year of teaching. Here’s some reasons for having quizzes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">1)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Think of the quizzes as small midterms meant to prepare you for the real<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">deal.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Each quiz is worth a small fraction of your overall grade, just under<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">0.62% of your total course score.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Each quiz covers about 1 week’s worth of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">material.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That’s not a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, it will tell you right then how well you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">know that material and if you’re maybe not approaching things properly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">2)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>They’re meant to make sure you don’t fall too far behind.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You knew before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">the first quiz you had be done with material up through 13.4.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>For the second<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quiz you knew you should have been prepared for 13.5-14.2.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Former students<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and TAs (who were my former students) told me time after time the quizzes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">prepared them better because they knew they had to be prepared by then.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">They stated if they only had activities in recitation they didn’t really have to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">prepared by recitation so they would fall behind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">You should be done with one lecture’s material (reading the sections, doing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sample Exercises, Practice Exercises, Self Assessment and EOC Exercises)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">before the next lecture.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You should be done with the whole week’s worth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">of material by about Sunday, maybe Monday since we don’t have class<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">until Tue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The quiz covering that material is the next weekend, after you’ve done the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">material and had a recitation where you could ask questions about it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">do the Mastering as a review for the quiz.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That’s how it’s set up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If you fall behind in this course, you’ll find yourself in trouble
<span class="GramE">pretty quickly</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and may not be able to catch up and recover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">3) There have been times questions from the quizzes appeared on the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">midterms, or were very similar to questions on the midterm.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That means if<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you’ve seen them already there’s no reason to miss them on the midterm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If you got something wrong on the quiz, fix it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That’s another purpose of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">the quizzes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>They let you know now what you don’t know so you can fix<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">it before the midterm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If you really understand the material, you should be able to answer the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">questions on the quizzes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>They’re open book, but you don’t have time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">to really look things up, just like on the midterms.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You must know the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">material.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">4)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>When you study for the midterm, you’ll have practice exams.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In our class<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you also have the quizzes you can look back at.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Remember, I put a sample<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quiz and the solutions to it on my personal class webpage at the “Quizzes”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">link.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Print it out and take it when studying for the midterm, maybe before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you try the practice exams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">5)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>There are quizzes the Sunday before the midterm.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Generally, those<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quizzes will have questions dealing with material on the midterm.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>There<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">could be new material which isn’t on the midterm depending on how<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">things work out with the schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If the quiz is covering material which is on the midterm, as is the case<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">for quiz 3 and MT 1, you should already be prepared for that material<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">so</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> the quiz shouldn’t be a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>If you do struggle with it, then you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">know you don’t know the material as well as you need to and need<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">to look at it again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">6)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Students have asked where the questions come from because they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">haven’t seen any like them.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I saw someone state this on Reddit (oh,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you thought that was a secret).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Many of the questions come from EOC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Mastering questions or are
<span class="GramE">similar to</span> them.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
They don’t have to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">exactly like the EOCE.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>College is about understanding the material<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and being able to answer questions pertaining to the material, even if<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">they’re not worded exactly like those in the book or Mastering.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Also,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I’m trying to make some questions that give partial credit so they’re<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">more like a paper quiz on which you would get partial credit so they<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">can’t always look just like a book question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">7)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>If you think you were doing things correctly but still struggled on the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quiz it likely means you weren’t studying effectively to really learn the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">material.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>If you didn’t come to one of the “How to Study/Learn” sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">or watched the recording on Carmen (Lecture module) I suggest you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">watch the video.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Watch it and pay close attention to how I’m telling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you to approach learning in general and specifically for chemistry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and learn the material properly for long term retention.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Give it a try.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Even if you did
<span class="GramE">fairly well</span> on the quiz, it could still help you refine what<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you’re doing and cut down on the time you’re spending.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If you really think you’ve been following my instructions and you’re<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">still struggling and didn’t do well on the quizzes we can make<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">arrangements to meet in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">8)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The questions on the quizzes have different point values.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">means you probably want to pay has much attention to how many<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">questions you missed as you do to your score.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Maybe you got 30/40<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">but you missed only 2 questions out of 10 which were worth 5 pts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">each.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Think of it this way, you only missed 2 out of 10.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>That’s only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">2 you need to fix.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Although, that may not be the whole story. If you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">guessed at any and got them right, you technically missed them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Keep that in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Again, each quiz is worth just over 0.6 % of your total course grade.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">That’s not much.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>One bad quiz isn’t the end of the world, as long as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you fix things and do well on the rest of the quizzes and course.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">course, if you don’t fix things and you continue to struggle that will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Get problems fixed now.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Plus, remember we drop the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">two lowest quiz scores.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">9)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Why are they on Sunday evening? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I have them outside of
<span class="GramE">recitation</span> so you don’t have to worry about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">having your computer or iPad with you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>More importantly, it gives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">you the whole 55-min recitation period to ask questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Why Sunday?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>What other day would really be more convenient.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Monday-Thursday nights aren’t good since people have classes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Would Friday or Sat night be better?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I doubt it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I found Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">night to have the fewest conflicts.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Plus, it gives you Fri and Sat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">to do the Mastering as a review for the quiz.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">10) Why only a 3-hour window?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">When testing is done remotely the window available for taking the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quiz is supposed to be kept short. Technically, it shouldn’t be much<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">longer than the quiz itself.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The longer the window, the more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">incidences of academic misconduct.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>We saw these problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">when we went to remote testing when the pandemic first hit in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sp20.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I saw it Autumn 2020 when I started giving quizzes via<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Carmen with a broader window.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">11)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Why can’t we move backward in the quiz?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The reason why it’s one question at a time and you can’t move<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">backward in the quizzes is to cut down on academic misconduct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Allowing people to move backward when we went remote lead to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">a lot of academic misconduct.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I won’t go into details how we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">knew this was occurring but we could tell.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Best practices state<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">to not allow this on remote testing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If you can’t figure out the answer to a question you can’t spend a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">really long time on it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You need to take a guess and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">You have about 3-4 minutes per question on the quizzes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">about 2.5 min per question on the midterms.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Write your work out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and check it once and if you get the same answer move on to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">next question.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You must have confidence in yourself when you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">answer a question that you’ve done it correctly and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Practice will give you that confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Besides, missing one question isn’t a big deal if it allows you to make<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">sure</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> you can get to all of them and
finish.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s better to not get hung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">up on one question, even if it means missing it, so you can get to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">rest of them and maybe get all the rest correct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">12)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Exams are different.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Since they’re in person you will be allowed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">to move backward in the exam.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>If you don’t know how to answer a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">question or get it the wrong answer (for multiple choice), move on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and go back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Also, every question is worth 1 point.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Some people don’t think that’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">fair for hard questions to be worth the same as easy ones.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>There’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">an argument for that but then again if you miss a hard one it doesn’t<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">cost you more points than missing an easy one.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>It’s also a lot more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">work to give different point values to every question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">13) Don’t talk to your friends in other lecture sections and take anything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">away from what they tell you about their overall scores and averages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">and compare it to ours.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>They may not be doing things the way we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">are.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Besides, what makes you think they know more about our class<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">than you do?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Lots of rumors get spread around, and they’re just that,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">rumors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Everyone takes the same midterms.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>However, all the classes are doing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">slightly different things in Mastering and recitation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Because of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quizzes, our average in recitation may be lower than other sections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The averages in Mastering between lecture sections won’t be the same<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">but
<span class="GramE">generally</span> are very close.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">However, this is the important part,
<b>this will be taken into consideration<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">when the grades are assigned at the end of the semester</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I won’t go<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">into the details of how.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I’m just letting you know your final grade won’t be hurt because we have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">quizzes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>If anything, if you take the quizzes seriously and use them for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">their intended purposes, they will help you in the long run on the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">midterms and ultimately the whole course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">14) Taking quizzes can help for the exams which count a lot more than<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">each quiz and the total recitation score.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I analyzed data last spring and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">it clearly showed a much better correlation of midterm scores to the quiz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">scores than to Mastering.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Do the EOCE from the book and the Mastering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">as a review to prepare for the quizzes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I hope this helps explain the advantages of taking quizzes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Treat it as a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">learning experience to prepare you for the midterms and keep you on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">track so you don’t fall too far behind.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>They really shouldn’t be a problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">if you’re doing things properly and not falling behind.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>You should be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ready for them at the time they’re given.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Zellmer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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