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This guest post is by Ali Gray, Head of Geography, West Hill Park School, Hampshire.
I tried out SPA with a Year 8 geography class recently. I gave them 20 mins of guided research on a topic and then they started the SPA. I have never seen them work so hard/ fast for 15 mins while they wrote up their answers!
It is intense (for the pupils), but very effective learning.
They enjoyed assessing each other’s work and they (more…)
Consider a class that has studied a particular topic. Different students know different amounts about the topic. Some understand one aspect well, others another. Some probably haven’t ‘got it’ at all. You could say that understanding of your topic within the class is lumpy.
How can you efficiently share that knowledge and understanding so that every member of the class is informed, and has a good chance of retaining their deepened understanding in the future? And how do you (more…)
In Yacapaca, students are given a set amount of time to answer each question. The time remaining is shown on the timer bar.
The purpose of the timer is to help students stay focused on the task, and it works really well. The way it works is more subtle than you may have realised.
Inside the quiz app there is a very clever algorithm that ensures (more…)
Some of your students may have triggered an error message like this:
What is it? What triggers it? How do you fix it? (more…)
So your students have taken their quiz, read the feedback, got the score. What now? Most likely, you want students to fill in the gaps in their knowledge that the quiz has revealed. Here are the 5 tools we have built into Yacapaca to help them do just that.
The very simplest. Click on any quiz in your Assignments page and you will see something like this:
This shows how well the whole class did, broken down by key (more…)
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