dr suzanne fergus & dr stewart kirton department pharmacy, school life and medical sciences
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Student-generated content: using PeerWise to help support chemistry understanding and increase student engagement in a first year module
Dr Suzanne Fergus & Dr Stewart KirtonDepartment Pharmacy, School Life and Medical Sciences
A 1st year chemistry module (Molecular Structure and Reactivity) co-taught to undergraduate students from Dept of Pharmacy (n= 223) and Dept Health and Environmental Science (n=180).
Lack of practice
questions
Too much content. Not enough exam
practice.
A lot of information I found
was like A-level, making it hard to remain engaged
Would like more access
to exam questions
Hard to repeat work done inside out at A level and still be engaged
in lectures
Provide sample exam paper with answers
Staff produce more practice questions
What about Week 12 Progress Test
Start Module with Contextualised Examples
Mixed abilities in cohort
?
?
?
BLOOM’S TAXONOMY OF COGNITIVE SKILLS
The amount of content per lecture
can be a challenge.
….remembering all the material.
The amount of material that needs to be learned. The
huge difference between material learned at A-level compared to now.
..being able to remember all the names, properties
and reactions involving different
molecules.
Lectures sometimes feel like information
overload…. Chemistry has many details that are often difficult to
remember.
BLOOM’S TAXONOMY OF COGNITIVE SKILLS
Students create multiple choice questions and share them with peers
Students view, answer, and give feedback to their peers
Free to use
MSR9 AssignmentPeerwise Question DevelopmentDue in Week 10, Friday 30th Nov at 18:30
You are assigned two chemistry theory topics (which are also covered in Semester A lectures). You are required to create an MCQ on each topic, answer 5 questions, comment on 3 questions and rate other students’ questions for quality and difficulty.
The main stadium for the 2012 London Olympics was located in
A. Great BritainB. British IslesC. EnglandD. ScotlandE. Europe
Which of the following is not an intermolecular attractive force?
A. Hydrogen BondingB. Dispersion ForcesC. Dipole-Dipole InteractionsD. Resonance StructuresE. Ion-Ion Interactions
Camtasia video with step by step guide on “How to Register with Peerwise”
Student Engagement
3 students out of 237 did not create any questions 52 students just answered the required 5 questions 75% of cohort answered more than the required
number (2 students answered 95 questions!)
The MSR workshop 1 helped me to develop writing good quality Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neither Agree nor Disagree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
The MSR workshop 1 helped me to develop writing good quality Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Answer Options Response Percent
Response Count
Strongly Agree 23.3% 14Agree 66.7% 40Neither Agree nor Disagree 8.3% 5Disagree 1.7% 1Strongly Disagree 0.0% 0
Which aspect of the assignment (MSR9) did you find the most beneficial to your chemistry learning?
Answer Options Response Percent
Response Count
Creating MCQ Questions 31.1% 19
Answering MCQ Questions 63.9% 39
Commenting on MCQ Questions 4.9% 3
Other (please specify) 0.0% 0
Which aspect of the assignment (MSR9) did you find the most beneficial to your chemistry learning?
Creating MCQ Questions
Answering MCQ Ques-tions
Commenting on MCQ Questions
Other (please specify)
Which aspect of using Peerwise did you find the most challenging?
Answer Options Response Percent
Response Count
Creating MCQ Questions 62.1% 36
Answering MCQ Questions 17.2% 10
Commenting on Questions 10.3% 6
Registering on Peerwise 5.2% 3
Posting on Peerwise 1.7% 1
Other (please specify) 3.4% 2
Which aspect of using Peerwise did you find the most challenging?
Creating MCQ QuestionsAnswering MCQ Ques-tionsCommenting on Ques-tionsRegistering on PeerwisePosting on PeerwiseOther (please specify)
Did you use Peerwise after the assignment deadline to prepare for the Progress Test in week 12?
Answer Options Response Percent
Response Count
Yes 57.6% 34
No 42.4% 25
Comment 0
Did you use Peerwise after the assignment deadline to prepare for the Progress Test in week 12?
Yes
No
It is very useful because I can find answers and
explanations to various questions that I do not
understand. moreover, I understood and learnt a lot of things by answering the
questions in peerwise
It definitely helps when revising for exams
I thought it was an effective way of learning about how much you understood a certain topic as you had to understand something in order to write a question about it.
I'd question how beneficial it is compared to other revision/learning techniques. A lot of the questions written by students looked like they were written quickly and were unchallenging.
Peerwise is good to use, however the fact that it is your
own choice to answer which ever question you prefer, it is easy to just choose the easy
questions and not attempt the more challenging ones.
There is that cynical feeling knowing that a student wrote the question so there is that doubtful factor an lack of confident in the answer and a explanation for the MCQ.
