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ASTL101 Assessment population enrolled includes 5 in-class sections offered in Cranford and Elizabeth and 4 online sections. This survey asks our students to evaluate each of the individual laboratory exercises and includes a limited number of multiple-choice questions about material covered in the lectures and laboratories. In addition we will correlate the students understanding of concepts being tested in the laboratory exercises with the students’ answers to a number of short essay questions given in a subset of the laboratory exercises. Time Scale This survey will be conducted before the present term ends (12/2010). The survey will be offered for the next 2 or 3 years to evaluate changes made to the course. Action We will evaluate what needs to be changed or updated in our laboratory offerings. We will then use our survey over the next 2 or 3 years to evaluate the outcome of our updated laboratory offerings. - 2 -
ASTL101 Assessment SUMMARY OF MAJOR FINDINGS AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS This section gives a summary of major findings, along with actions being taken to address those findings. Specifics are detailed in the sections below. 1. In lab, the overall percent of students with correct answers is 63%, short of our goal of 70%. Corrective action: In Fall 2011, (the next major time AST101 is offered inclass), we will implement pre-tests for several labs, requiring students to answer several questions on the lab’s concepts before the remainder of the lab is made available to them. This will be trialed at first only for in-class labs – if successful, it will be extended to web labs. 2. Students consider lab OP17 as not supporting GE objectives nor helping them learn Astronomy. Corrective action: OP17 was replaced by OP11 immediately after we received feedback from several sections of students. The replacement, OP11, achieved student rating scores consistent with other labs. 3. Students achieved an abysmally low score (29%) on a very fundamental question – how many stars are there in the Solar System. Corrective action 1: We felt that the problem was that student’s knew the correct answer here, but just were trying to complete the questionnaire quickly and weren’t fully reading the question. We tested this hypothesis by re-asking the same question in class again on paper, but asking the students to read the questions carefully. Results improved from the original 29% to 68.7 This is still short of our target of 70% . Corrective action 2: This question is also asked in AST102 (Spring), so we‘ll be taking action in Spring to see how to improve scores. Each instructor will show a short video on the sizes of objects in the Universe at the beginning of the last third of the course, reinforcing material already taught in the first lesson, but perhaps forgotten. And we’ll add a note to the assessment question to “read the question carefully”. Reassessment in Spring 2011: This has been partially successful – in reassessment the following semester, 70.4% of students answered this correctly. While meeting our target, it is only a small increase from the results obtained by corrective action a (above). To try to improve this further, we have modified two sets of lecture notes to explicitly require a video on the scales of the universe during the last third of each astronomy lecture course. - 3 -
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