{"id":474,"date":"2017-10-19T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/?p=474"},"modified":"2017-10-23T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:52:01","slug":"monday-oct-23-2017-alain-prat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2017\/10\/19\/monday-oct-23-2017-alain-prat\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Oct 23, 2017: Alain Prat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Working against the WeBWork clock: What are the behaviour patterns of students who struggle to complete online calculus assignments?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Alain Prat is a Science Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Math Department\u00a0at UBC. His research focuses on understanding and supporting the lowest\u00a0performing first year calculus students. He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Since 2010, the math department at UBC has been gradually\u00a0\u00a0adopting the WeBWork online homework system in most first and second year\u00a0\u00a0courses. Instructors typically give students several days to complete their\u00a0WeBWork assignments, and allow students several attempts at each problem.\u00a0Despite this, many students struggle to complete their online assignments.\u00a0In this talk, I&#8217;ll discuss how the timing of answer submission recorded in\u00a0WeBWork log files can reveal the behaviour patterns of students who\u00a0struggle with WeBWork. In particular, students who don&#8217;t complete the\u00a0WeBWork start the assignments closer to the deadline, have shorter login\u00a0sessions and don&#8217;t persist for as long once they encounter a problem they\u00a0can&#8217;t solve. I&#8217;ll discuss what these observations can reveal about the\u00a0mindset of struggling students, and how assignments could be restructured\u00a0to help increase their completion rate.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working against the WeBWork clock: What are the behaviour patterns of students who struggle to complete online calculus assignments? Alain Prat is a Science Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Math Department\u00a0at UBC. His research focuses on understanding and supporting the lowest\u00a0performing first year calculus students. He writes: &#8220;Since 2010, the math department at UBC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/2017\/10\/19\/monday-oct-23-2017-alain-prat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday Oct 23, 2017: Alain Prat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1379071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}