Timeline for What is the best way to see if students understood?
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 23:13 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | In particular, +1 for the first sentence. I don't really understand something until I've applied it. For example, when I am learning a programming language independently, I switch frequently between writing a program and reading about the language. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | JeffE | +1 for the first paragraph, despite the second paragraph. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 13:26 | comment | added | A Simple Algorithm | While these suggestions are pretty traditional and not the best ideas of current teaching pedagogy, they are time-honored and can work, so I disagree with the categorical criticism. Not every student is an anxiety-prone introvert. If you have a class where no one speaks up to discuss or ask questions, you have failed to build the proper safe environment. Work harder at that critical task, from day one. If a student gets stuck on a problem on the board, this is valuable lesson; they thought they understood and discover they didn't. An opportunity to step in and teach now. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 11:56 | comment | added | Buffy | @NajibIdrissi, I agree completely. The one thing the writer got correct is that students won't understand something until they use it. But I've found all of the suggestions here to be counterproductive. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 11:14 | comment | added | user9646 | In my experience, these techniques don't really work. Students don't realize that they don't understand, and so they don't ask questions. If you ask them whether everything is clear, they will mutter "yes"; they're deadly afraid of looking like fools. Show of hand is just a game of chicken: people first check if their friends raise their hands before raising theirs. And sending a student to the blackboard can help, buy often students are incapable of redoing the exercise even after seeing someone do it. Just try it. Can you clarify at what level and for what class you used these techniques? | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 10:35 | history | answered | Allure | CC BY-SA 4.0 |