Preparing to Teach Online: Week 1 paper review (small group review)

Create Your First Week Forum

Make forum posts: 1

Due Date: Initial post and responses are due no later than March 1, 2020

Assignment: Write a prompt with full directions for a discussion forum for the first or second week of class. Be sure to include a deadline, word count if any, responses required, and whether students should have citations.

Respond to at least one of your peers. Submit your prompt as text entry and respond to a colleague's by answering one of the following questions:

What type of feedback will students be able to receive based on this prompt?
Is the grading criteria clear and easy to understand? If not, how can it be further clarified?
How can student responses be incorporated into the class lecture or learning activities?
How does or can the prompt allow for different types of interaction?
How does or can the prompt require students to apply and reference the content presented in the course?
How does or can the prompt encourage students to think and reflect on what and how they are learning and its significance?

Tip! All responses should be CRISP: Considerate, Reflective, Interactive, Succinct, and Pertinent.

Grading Rubric:

Original Posting (5 points)

The deadline for the initial and reply post is clearly stated. (1 point)
The prompt description provides learners with context (1.5 points)
The prompt applies one of the 10 question types discussed in this module (1.5 points)
The length of the post is at least 50 words. ( 1 point)

Replies to Others’ Postings (5 points)

Learner responds to at least 1 colleague (1 point).
Question is fully addressed and stimulates further discussion (1.5 points)
Feedback mentions at least one point from this module's content (1.5 points)
Reply length is at least 50 words (1 point)

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Pete Van Zandt

Week 1 paper review (small group review)

Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 11:05 AM

Summarizing papers is an important skill in the scientific process, and it is a fundamental step in framing a new research study. To give you practice at this, I've paired each student with a partner who is interested in doing a related project. Now that you've both read the same paper, I want each of you to post about two components of the paper AND reply to each other's post. Here are the guidelines:

* Each partner should summarize two aspects (describe the study system of the paper, state the research question or hypothesis of the paper, describe the experimental or observational methods used in the paper, describe the statistical analysis of the paper, summarize the main result(s) of the paper).

* The other partner should summarize two other aspects of the paper that your partner has not done already.

* Each student should reply to their partner's initial post by synthesizing some aspect of the two initial posts (e.g., how does the description of the research question as described by student 1 relate to the main result that student 2 posted on?). In your response post, you should also describe how this paper or study is similar or will be helpful to your own project.

* Both initial posts and replies are due by the start of the 2nd week of class and will be graded on how closely you've followed the instructions, how thorough your posts are, and the level of synthesis in your replies.

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