During conversations with students I often suggest that writing a weekly summary describing/explaining the main ideas and concepts of the week is an excellent way to review. If you can easily write the summary, then you have a good organized understanding of the material. If the ideas are hard for you to summarize, then that tells you that you need to re-look at those ideas.
This coming semester I am formalizing this and having students write a weekly review. Since there are over 500 students the logistics of this are daunting! To help with accountability each student will post their writing to CPR, a peer-assessment web-site. The web-site does an internal swap-a-roo: each student gets to look at three other student's summaries and they provide feedback. At the end, the student can read the feedback of their own summary.
How effective will this be? I might track the quality of the summaries as we progress through the semester.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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