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Student exam performance question
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can point me to specific references on test performance and/or test anxiety when students take a test where questions are of a new style or written by a new professor? I am currently in a group where three instructors teach three different sections of A and P but write a final together to give to all students. The students across sections have struggled with and expressed frustration with questions written by the other instructors. Id like to see what data there is o
2 Replies | Last on 3/5/2020 at 4:02 AM ET
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can point me to specific references on test performance and/or test anxiety when students take a test where questions are of a new style or written by a new professor? I am currently in a group where three instructors teach three different sections of A and P but write a final together to give to all students. The students across sections have struggled with and expressed frustration with questions written by the other instructors. Id like to see what data there is on this to support either keeping the format or changing it to best serve the students, but am having a hard time finding useful articles.
Any thoughts or references would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Elise
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Hi, I am Nuran Kumbaraci, an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in NJ teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in physiology and biology. Over the years, I have noticed that the textbooks are including more detail and many resources are easily available to students on the web. However, as educators we have to engage the students and focus on key points in class and labs. Last year I participated in the V&C program and found valuable resources. I
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Hi, I am Nuran Kumbaraci, an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in NJ teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in physiology and biology. Over the years, I have noticed that the textbooks are including more detail and many resources are easily available to students on the web. However, as educators we have to engage the students and focus on key points in class and labs. Last year I participated in the V&C program and found valuable resources. I am looking forward to interacting with other educators to expand the effective teaching resources so that we can provide a positive learning experience to students in class and labs.
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My name is Julie Dais and I teach introductory biology, as well as anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology (to nursing students) at Okanagan College in British Columbia. There are many great case studies that can be used in the classroom associated with LifeSciTRC, but I'd love to see more related to botany! Please reply with any ideas that you may have because I am sure I am not the only educator looking for this.
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Hi - I'm Shari Litch Gray and I'm on the faculty of Regis College in the Department of Biology. I am a physiologist by training so I teach primarily animal physiology for bio-majors and A&P for allied health majors but I occasionally teach general biology. I am glad to see a resource srchive focused on biology related topics. I look forward to searching and sharing.
Undergraduate Instructor for Pre-Allied Health
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Hi,
I am a teacher at a community college in Amarillo, TX. I have been teaching A&P and Micro for about 7 years now. I have currently taken over the Life Science classes for Non-Science Majors. I am just hoping to get some good ideas about how to better engage my students and make my classes more relevent to my students lives. The non-science students seem to be giving me a whole new level of difficulty. They have very little in the way of a scientific scaffold on which to build. I am looking forward to hearing what is working across the country.
