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Do Now – Complete. You have 5 minutes to complete the multiple choice test Simply circle the letter to indicate your choice A B C D E No consultation with your peers please!. Building Knowledge Tuesday 1 st September. Building student memory. Key questions: How does memory work?
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Do Now – Complete • You have 5 minutes to complete the multiple choice test • Simply circle the letter to indicate your choice A B C D E • No consultation with your peers please!
Building Knowledge Tuesday 1st September
Building student memory Key questions: How does memory work? How can we teach to build memory?
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‘Learning is deeper and more durable when it’s effortful.’
Quizzing 1. Purposeful 2. Targeted 3. Instantly corrected
Practice 1. Knowledge maps: why and how? 2. Multiple Choice Questions: why and how?
Why use knowledge maps? 1. Decisions 2. Clarity 3. Revision
Knowledge maps 1. Selective 2. Defined 3. Organised
Knowledge and application When did Coleridge write ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’? a) 1665 b) 1793 c) 1797 d) 1815 e) 1816
Knowledge and application ‘I wish you could see him; he is very tall for his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes.’ Who is being described here, and what theme does this quotation suggest? a) In this quotation, William is being described, suggesting the theme of innocence. b) In this quotation, Clerval is being described, suggesting the theme of friendship. c) In this quotation, William is being described, suggesting the theme of loss. d) In this quotation, Clerval is being described, suggesting the theme of isolation. e) In this quotation, William is being described, suggesting the theme of science.
Knowledge and application ‘I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation.’ Which language techniques are combined here, and what is its effect? a) In this quotation, onomatopoeia and religious imagery are used to emphasise how disgusting Frankenstein is. b) In this quotation, a simile and religious imagery are used to emphasise that the death of Justine will never be forgotten. c) In this quotation, pathetic fallacy and natural imagery are used to emphasise how destructive what has happened is. d) In this quotation, prolepsis and a metaphor are used to suggest that the creature will wreak his revenge. e) In this quotation, a metaphor and graveyard imagery are used to emphasise how destructive the guilt Frankenstein feels is.
Why use multiple choice questions? 1. Workload 2. Diagnosis 3. Breadth
How to designmultiple choice questions 1. Five options 2. Plausible distractors 3. Unambiguously wrong distractors 4. Misconceptions as distractors 5. Multiple correct options
5 options 5 options: 20% chance of guessing 3 options: 33% chance of guessing 2 options: 50% chance of guessing
Implausible distractor How did Boudicca die? a) She was drowned in a tub of soup.
Ambiguous distractors What happens in the plot of Oliver Twist? A young boy runs away to London B) An orphan falls in with a street gang of street urchins C) A poor orphan is adopted by a wealthy gentleman D) A criminal murders a young woman and is pursued by a mob E) A gang of pickpockets abduct a young boy
Misconceptions as distractors 4. How many items can we hold in our working memory? a) We can hold 1-2 items in our working memory. b) We can hold 3-4 items in our working memory. c) We can hold 5-6 items in our working memory. d) We can hold 7-8 items in our working memory. e) We can hold limitless items in our working memory.
Multiple correct options 10. Ideally, which guidance should you use to make your distractors? (Choose all that apply.) a) Distractors should be unambiguously right. b) Distractors should be plausible. c) Distractors should be unambiguously wrong. d) Distractors should be implausible. e) Distractors should be interesting.
Multiple choice questions 1. Five options 2. Plausible distractors 3. Unambiguously wrong distractors 4. Misconceptions as distractors 5. Multiple correct options
Task 2 – Creating effective multiple choice questions In your subject areas you will have 15 minutes to construct 5 multiple choice questions. Base these 5 questions on 1 lesson only. Consider the information you have received today and think carefully about the key knowledge you would want your students taking away from the lesson. You will then send them via email to get some feedback on the questions you have constructed in this session. 1. Five options 2. Plausible distractors 3. Unambiguously wrong distractors 4. Misconceptions as distractors 5. Multiple correct options
Plenary Alone, try the multiple choice quiz again. This will help us to work out which concepts to revisit in future CPD sessions. Write any questions you have about knowledge, memory, knowledge maps or multiple choice questions at the bottom of your quiz.