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Physical Geography Technology Enhancements and Distance Learning February 19, 2010 Donald Thieme GEOG 1113K • one of two introductory courses in Physical Geography • GEOG 1112 - Weather and Climate • GEOG 1113 - Introduction to Landforms • can be taken as a sequence to satisfy laboratory science requirement for education and other majors Testing and Grading • • • • • • • 3 Exams (100 points) Final Exam (200 points) Videos (10 points each) Attendance (25 possible points) Lab Exercises (10 points each) Lab Mid-Term Lab Final 300 200 50 25 100 50 100 825 Practice Tests • 40-60 multiple choice questions • test banks provided by textbook publisher, Pearson Prentice Hall • Fall, 2007 and Fall, 2008 - a "Java" script provided by Pearson Prentice Hall, accessed through WebCT online • Fall, 2010 - test bank imported into BlazeView, Valdosta State University's implementation of BlackBoard Vista 8 . Accessed as an "Assessment" 2007-2008 Practice Tests • "Java" script accessed through WebCT online • Students had to turn off pop-up blocker, install new JAVA, etc.... • JAVA script would crash and leave students half finished - - > Could not be timed. • Students made mistakes on Name, Course ID, etc... - - > Allowed multiple trials. • Nearly 90% answered over 90% of questions correctly. • How many got "help"? ? 2009 - Practice Test • BlazeView "Assessment" • Students failed to read instructions and reported some of the same problems as in 2007 and 2008, • Test was timed initially, later opened for multiple tries. • Only 21% answered over 90% of questions correctly. • Still poor correlation with Exam 2 grades. • Many students still not learning from this practice. 2007-2009 Google Earth Latitude and Longitude Coordinates • short enough to be easily copied • accurate enough to find the landform Geographic Locations • general enough to be familiar • specific enough to be physically unique 3-4 Questions • at least one process question • all sets similar in difficulty "Capstone" Experience in that it combines all blocks of study into one exercise
