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Engaging Students with Blackboard Instant Messenger and Individualized Exams

Engaging Students with Blackboard Instant Messenger and Individualized Exams. Robert O. Keel, Teaching Professor of Sociology & Specialist, Sociology, UMSL Jeffery S. Thomas, Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, S&T. Mechanics of Materials

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Engaging Students with Blackboard Instant Messenger and Individualized Exams

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  1. Engaging Students with Blackboard Instant Messenger and Individualized Exams Robert O. Keel, Teaching Professorof Sociology & Specialist, Sociology, UMSL Jeffery S. Thomas, Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, S&T

  2. Mechanics of Materials Materials Testing Structural Analysis

  3. Mechanics of Materials

  4. Diploma 622 calculation questions 421 conceptual questions 220 categories 132 enabling objectives 12 terminal objectives

  5. Topics ranked by performance. New questions written for specific levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.

  6. Old Method

  7. New Method copy selected Diploma questions into single file

  8. import questions to Blackboard

  9. create test with question sets instead of random blocks

  10. select specific questions for each set

  11. swap questions in some sets for tests in other sections

  12. give individualized feedback

  13. Diploma and Blackboard Question Sets Export from Diploma to Blackboard, Respondus, Wiley EQAT, etc Students get unique exams Effort to create and grade is now reduced Extra time can be spent analyzing data, writing better questions More students can be taught Results are more consistent

  14. Questions? • Acknowledgements • Malcolm Hays, Julie Phelps, Timothy Philpot • many student assistants • Missouri S&T Educational Technology • Missouri S&T eFellows Program • Missouri S&T Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs • NSF Grant 0837339

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