Assessing class performance
- Assess a class from their homework
- Draw out misconceptions
- 1.With a bunch of 7 homeworks, identify what this class struggle with. Check this example before starting
- Write down a list of topics that needs to be retaught for this class
- Come up with a strategy to puncture these misconceptions. Live coding, worked example, peer instruction. Write everything down.
- 2.Watch this video. Do you think this can be applied to teaching software? What does that mean for our teaching?
- 3.Create examples and questions that visualize the students misconceptions regarding promises.
- 4.Present the coach with an exercise and ask them to solve it 5 ways incorrectly, with mistakes a student would make. Again to draw out misconceptions.
This is an example of a alumni Zuhair Taha going through a classes homework and making a list of misconceptions/struggles of the class
After following class 14 homework for javascript 1 week 2 here are some notes:
- Many students have a problem with understanding return at functions.
- The most difficult question for them was the fourth student manager
- Many students don't know that they can use <= and >= is available when they compare at if condition.
- There is still a problem with understanding the goal of functions. What is the function, why do we use it, and when?
- When I told students at the feedback that they can give the parameter at the function a default value at:function getFullname(firstname, surname, useFormalName = false) {I noticed confusion and difficulty understanding this.
- Using a lot of redundant
console.logeven if not mentioned in the question to log something. Also, I've seen at many homework that the return it likereturn console.log(..) - Using unclear or non-expressive names for the variables like x, a and I have told them that it is preferable to use clear, meaningful names for variables and functions.
- At question 4 to check if the student exists or not. Very few were thinking of using includes of indexOf at the array. Many used complex loops to implement it.-There was no clear understanding of how to use codepen to test the code. (edited)
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