i love interviewing professors for this blog series; every time i do it, i learn something new. speaking with dr. dana kan<\/strong>, an assistant professor in the department of hearing and speech sciences at 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地 medical center, i learned that classroom acoustics constitute an important aspect of the learning environment. i also came to appreciate kan\u2019s use of a non-graded midterm in the course mde-5392: teaching children with hearing loss to listen and speak: early childhood development.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>kan mainly grades her course on a series of assignments, ranging from case studies and reading responses to more open-ended projects that prompt students to take class material and translate it into a real-world application. all three years she has taught this course, she hasn\u2019t felt that it lends itself to a traditional exam. rather, during typical midterm season, kan instructs her students to bring in three different color pens. the next week, she hands them a midterm. it\u2019s unlike other midterms in that she won\u2019t grade it\u2014its purpose is to let students check their knowledge.<\/p>\n
with their first pen color, students go through the exam and answer everything they can from memory, as one would a typical graded exam. then, the students go through with a second color and add or change their responses to questions after consulting the textbook, class materials, and notes\u2014essentially everything except google. lastly, after students finish, they are paired together and use their third color pen to note changes or additions made by consulting each other.<\/p>\n
kan always finds \u201call three pen colors on there somewhere.\u201d even though her students are well-engaged, this midterm helps them see what they know and what they don\u2019t know as well, reflecting the reality of a rigorous graduate program in which students are learning new, important information at a rapid clip. though kan doesn\u2019t grade the midterms, she does read through each of them. this not only may motivate students to still do their best, but it also shows kan areas of confusion or misunderstanding in the course.<\/p>\n
this sort of low- or no-stakes memory retrieval has been shown to be highly valuable<\/a> both for building memory and for building the kind of understanding that helps students apply their knowledge. kan has incorporated it throughout the course: at the beginning of each class, kan has students recall what they learned last week. kan\u2019s final also reflects her goal to focus on students learning the material, with a traditional exam replaced with a jeopardy-style game that reviews both knowledge and application.<\/p>\n
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