Analyzing Errors - Gratuitous Poster
Friday, September 27, 2019
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This twelvemonth I'm making lots of tiny changes to my classroom.
Still doing notebooks. But, I'm letting students purpose their notebooks on their quizzes. And, our notebooks are going to have got a heap to a greater extent than worked examples inward them.
Still doing SBG. But, I'm changing the format of my quizzes together with what students have got to create to endure able to requiz.
Still doing A/B/Not Yet. But, I'm toying alongside the sentiment of changing how I teach inward these grades inward the computer. This is yet to endure decided.
There's a ton to a greater extent than examples, but I holler upwards you lot should have got an sentiment of what I mean. :)
Last year, I required my students to retake whatever quizzes they received a "Not Yet" on. Students would teach dorsum their "Not Yet" quizzes together with the groans together with complaints would start. Life was unfair, they claimed. I hated them.
As the twelvemonth progressed, the procedure of retaking quizzes slow morphed into a organization that kinda worked. At the kickoff of the year, I would have got students have got the exact same quiz over. Some students apace figured out that they simply had to notice a way to teach their hands on someone's quiz who made an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or a B together with memorize the answers. This sentiment apace went out the window. I started writing each shaver a customized retake based on what they had missed on a dissever sail of paper. This worked better. Each shaver has their ain personalized problems to work. Cheating was a whole lot harder all of a sudden. But, this too had its downsides. Personalized problems agency Ms. Hagan has to move out the occupation herself to banking concern stand upwards for the work. Grading without an respond cardinal is fine together with swell for roughly topics that I tin create inward my caput without actually thinking. But, dividing polynomials which effect inward a remainder? Those quizzes were a hurting to grade!
For this side past times side year, I am going to have got all students have got the same firstly SBG quiz for each skill. Then, students volition endure given 1 of 4 or 5 retake quizzes. Students volition have got to re-create these retake quizzes inward their ain handwriting on a quiz template which should preserve me roughly hassle. I programme on writing these retake quizzes on index cards together with keeping them inward a box on my desk. Writing the retake quizzes together with their respond keys volition have got a chip of fourth dimension together with effort, but I holler upwards it volition endure a much amend organization than this previous year.
Here's the big divergence though. I'm non going to allow students teach away alongside simply retaking a quiz. This is in all probability what drove me the most crazy final year. It annoyed me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than the students who were intentionally looking for ways to cheat inward my class. It was the students who would exhibit upwards at my desk together with enquire to retake a quiz. They would have got their former "Not Yet" quiz inward their manus to exhibit me what quiz they needed. I would have got a await at the quiz, together with I would ask, "So, did you lot figure out what you lot did wrong on that quiz?" Their respond would most unremarkably endure "No." Then, I would ask, "How create you lot programme on avoiding making the same mistakes on the novel quiz if you lot haven't fifty-fifty figured out what mistakes you lot made on the firstly quiz?" And, I would shipping them dorsum to their seats to pass roughly character fourth dimension alongside their former quiz.
It's similar my students sentiment that the deed of retaking a quiz would magically improve their agreement of the concept. Instead of complaining close this whatever more, I've decided to have got action. No quiz retakes without completing an error analysis sail for the quiz. Now, this sail has yet to endure created because I haven't just decided all that I desire it to accomplish.
I create desire this sail to create these things:
Still doing notebooks. But, I'm letting students purpose their notebooks on their quizzes. And, our notebooks are going to have got a heap to a greater extent than worked examples inward them.
Still doing SBG. But, I'm changing the format of my quizzes together with what students have got to create to endure able to requiz.
Still doing A/B/Not Yet. But, I'm toying alongside the sentiment of changing how I teach inward these grades inward the computer. This is yet to endure decided.
There's a ton to a greater extent than examples, but I holler upwards you lot should have got an sentiment of what I mean. :)
Last year, I required my students to retake whatever quizzes they received a "Not Yet" on. Students would teach dorsum their "Not Yet" quizzes together with the groans together with complaints would start. Life was unfair, they claimed. I hated them.
As the twelvemonth progressed, the procedure of retaking quizzes slow morphed into a organization that kinda worked. At the kickoff of the year, I would have got students have got the exact same quiz over. Some students apace figured out that they simply had to notice a way to teach their hands on someone's quiz who made an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or a B together with memorize the answers. This sentiment apace went out the window. I started writing each shaver a customized retake based on what they had missed on a dissever sail of paper. This worked better. Each shaver has their ain personalized problems to work. Cheating was a whole lot harder all of a sudden. But, this too had its downsides. Personalized problems agency Ms. Hagan has to move out the occupation herself to banking concern stand upwards for the work. Grading without an respond cardinal is fine together with swell for roughly topics that I tin create inward my caput without actually thinking. But, dividing polynomials which effect inward a remainder? Those quizzes were a hurting to grade!
For this side past times side year, I am going to have got all students have got the same firstly SBG quiz for each skill. Then, students volition endure given 1 of 4 or 5 retake quizzes. Students volition have got to re-create these retake quizzes inward their ain handwriting on a quiz template which should preserve me roughly hassle. I programme on writing these retake quizzes on index cards together with keeping them inward a box on my desk. Writing the retake quizzes together with their respond keys volition have got a chip of fourth dimension together with effort, but I holler upwards it volition endure a much amend organization than this previous year.
Here's the big divergence though. I'm non going to allow students teach away alongside simply retaking a quiz. This is in all probability what drove me the most crazy final year. It annoyed me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than the students who were intentionally looking for ways to cheat inward my class. It was the students who would exhibit upwards at my desk together with enquire to retake a quiz. They would have got their former "Not Yet" quiz inward their manus to exhibit me what quiz they needed. I would have got a await at the quiz, together with I would ask, "So, did you lot figure out what you lot did wrong on that quiz?" Their respond would most unremarkably endure "No." Then, I would ask, "How create you lot programme on avoiding making the same mistakes on the novel quiz if you lot haven't fifty-fifty figured out what mistakes you lot made on the firstly quiz?" And, I would shipping them dorsum to their seats to pass roughly character fourth dimension alongside their former quiz.
It's similar my students sentiment that the deed of retaking a quiz would magically improve their agreement of the concept. Instead of complaining close this whatever more, I've decided to have got action. No quiz retakes without completing an error analysis sail for the quiz. Now, this sail has yet to endure created because I haven't just decided all that I desire it to accomplish.
I create desire this sail to create these things:
- Require students to move out each occupation correctly
- Ask students to position what they did wrong when they firstly attempted the problem
- Direct students to reverberate on how they volition avoid making this same error inward the future
- Get students thinking close what types of errors they are making
When I manus dorsum quizzes inward my class, students similar a shot banking concern stand upwards for to encounter if they made an A, a B, or a Not Yet. This leads to the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 students rejoicing over their great fortune. The B students tin endure broken into ii groups. There are the students who are relieved that they never have got to have got that quiz again. And, at that topographic point are the students who are super frustrated alongside themselves for performing less than perfectly. The Not Yet students are unremarkably either non surprised because they knew they had no sentiment what they were doing OR they are devastated because they sentiment they had aced the quiz.
When I grade quizzes equally A, B, or Not Yet, that is the exclusively slice of data I give the students. I don't grade what problems they got wrong. I don't circle their errors. I simply write the letter(s) A, B, or NY. I desire students looking at their quizzes together with trying to figure out where they went wrong. This leads to students comparison their quizzes. This leads to give-and-take betwixt students. How did you lot teach that? Why was your respond right together with my respond wrong? I dear this. I love, love, dear this.
Though, equally students start to compare their quiz scores, the enquiry ever arises, "Why did I teach a Not Yet together with so-and-so teach a B?" I explicate that non all mistakes are equal. I exclusively give students an Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or a B on their quiz if they have got convinced me that they have got a enterprise agreement of how to solve the problem. If I have got whatever doubts close their flat of understanding, I am going to give them a "Not Yet." It's non because I loathe them. It's because I dear them. I aid close their future, together with I desire them to move out my shape alongside the best agreement of algebra that is possible.
Then, I saw this image on pinterest. It was designed for an unproblematic schoolhouse classroom, but it got my encephalon to create roughly major thinking. Would making my students determine what type of error they had made brand them thinking close their errors differently? I holler upwards it will. So, I laid out to have got this together with modify it for my ain high schoolhouse classroom. I desire to brand a poster to hang on the wall. Then, I desire to have got an expanse on their error analysis sail to have got them banknote which type of error they made.
I came upwards alongside this, together with I posted it to Twitter for feedback from the #MTBoS.
Have you lot noticed that I proceed using the intelligence "error", but my poster says "mistake?"
One of my tweeps suggested that at that topographic point is a divergence betwixt a error together with an error. I have got to acknowledge that I'd never actually sentiment close that before.
Another twitter conversation gave me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than nutrient for thought.
These ii conversations led to this novel version of the poster:
Is it perfect yet? I don't holler upwards so. I'm nevertheless thinking close how errors should endure classified. I'm nevertheless debating which category roughly of these examples belong under. There are nevertheless a ton of ideas percolating inward my brain.
One someone on twitter suggested changing "careless error" to "attention error." I'm nevertheless thinking close this. Another tweep suggested that careless errors together with computation errors could endure combined at the high schoolhouse level. I holler upwards this would move for my Algebra 2 students, but for my Algebra 1 students who nevertheless combat alongside integer operations, I holler upwards I demand to move out them equally dissever categories for right now. (Don't worry - I posted editable versions, then you lot tin brand this alter if you lot would similar to!)
But, I desire to teach ahead together with post service this for a few reasons.
1) You guys are amazing. You tin assistance me brand this better.
2) School is getting laid upwards to start dorsum for many of us. If I'm going to post service a poster, I should create it sooner rather than later.
3) I'm hoping someone else mightiness endure interested inward joining me on this journeying of having students assort their errors throughout the schoolhouse year. Any takers?
I'm thinking that I desire to start shape 1 twenty-four hours per calendar week alongside analyzing an incorrectly worked problem. Students volition have got to notice the error, assort the error, together with right the error.
You tin download my ii electrical current versions (and whatever futurity versions) of this poster here. They have got been uploaded equally an editable Publisher file together with a non-editable PDF file. If you lot want to edit the file, you lot volition demand to brand certain you lot download these fonts: Londrina Solid together with Caviar Dreams.
These posters are currently formatted to impress on 18" X 24" paper. You tin impress this size of dark together with white poster at Staples for $1.99! Then, all you lot have got to create is laminate it to have got a pretty giant poster to hang on your wall for simply a distich of dollars. You tin "What Zone are you lot in?" Poster together with loved the results.
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