Understanding the Questions Parents Are Asking

Are we asking the right questions?

Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Questions about computers replacing teachers sound a lot like the old class size issue. Some wonder if online learning is too focused on drilling fundamentals rather than exploring concepts. Budget issues now involve expensive technology replacing other costs or whether we even need textbooks. And we fully expect a news story soon about whether kindergarten is too early to introduce students to...

Asking the Right Questions

• • Appreciate the importance of a clear and focused research question • • To be able to use criteria such as PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) to frame an answerable question • • Understand the need for primary and secondary questions and the process of refinement • • To understand what a hypothesis is and how it differs from the aims and objectives of a study • • Be aware o...

Asking the Right Questions

Lynn Arthur Steen Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science St. Olaf College [email protected] Assessment is about asking and answering questions. For students, “how am I doing?” is the focus of socalled “formative” assessment, while “what’s my grade?” often seems to be the only goal of “summative” assessment. For faculty, “how’s it going?” is the hallmark of within-course asse...

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