Q&A assignment
Create questions and answers based on the reading(s) in the calendar.
Questions
Question should be designed to remember important information from the readings, not trivial details. The instructor will classify your question in one of the following ways:
- High
- a question that impresses the instructor (this is difficult to do!)
- typically requires original and evaluative thinking
- typically requires synthesis of two or more ideas
- specifically relates to reading content ("What is the main point of the reading?" is too general)
- answers would not be the same from student to student
- see high-level divergent questions for ideas
- Average
- an average question that requires a short answer response
- typically requires recall of factual information
- question's answer is easily found in the reading
- "best" questions because they depend on too many factors to fully consider
- also see low-level or convergent questions for ideas
- Low
- questions with very limited, recall responses, e.g.,
- multiple choice questions
- yes/no questions
- very short answer
- Other, problematic for some reason
- question is incoherent
- question is too vague to have a clear answer
- question is not relevant or important to the reading(s)
Answers
Please answer the question you wrote. Answers that contradict the reading(s) will lose half the MP for that question. No answer loses all MP for that question.
Scoring summary
Questions are labeled and recieve points as follows:
- high → 4 MP
- avg → 2 MP
- low → 1 MP
- other → 0 MP
Answers earn no points, but may modify points already earned.
Maximum 8 MP per assignment.
"Our job as teachers and teachers of teachers is to teach how to ask questions" P.R. Halmos