{"id":217,"date":"2008-03-14T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2012-10-26T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T02:08:09","slug":"midterms-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Midterms done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am done marking midterm exams and I posted the results well before the course drop date. Since results were quite good with a class average of &gt; 60% (no significant difference between day and evening sections) I hope that not too many students will drop. The results are certainly (significantly!) better than CHEM-217 last semester and there are several reasons for it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Class size is smaller &#8211; quite a few students, who failed CHEM-217 did not take CHEM-218<\/li>\n<li>Strategic learning classes helped a few to get a better understanding of the material<\/li>\n<li>In-class exercises helped to show that the material covered is not easy; at least not as easy as it seems, when you are guided through it by the instructor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Especially the last point is one that I have heard last semester and in evaluations that the exams were more difficult than the examples discussed in class. Since I profoundly disagree \ud83d\ude09 , I tried to provide more in-class examples and more importantly, in-class assignments that students try to solve for themselves before discussing it through a peer instruction exercise and answering the remaining questions in class. Overall I am quite happy about the improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am done marking midterm exams and I posted the results well before the course drop date. Since results were quite good with a class average of &gt; 60% (no significant difference between day and evening sections) I hope that not too many students will drop. The results are certainly (significantly!) better than CHEM-217 last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/?p=217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midterms done!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,95,119,267],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-class-assignments","tag-course","tag-drop","tag-peer-instruction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomad.priv.at\/researchblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}