No Lectures, no exams, and no graded homework - but you will learn much more...



Homework:
There will be 6 homework assignments during the term. Students will have one week to do the homework by themselves. These will not be graded, but will be brought to class.

Each student will share their homework solutions with their group and they will have 25 minutes to produce a much better, collaborative solution. The the answers will be provided and the groups can check their solution and have an opportunity to let us know if they had a better solution than ours.
Another 20 minutes will be provided for each student to write a reflection of their experience, mark up their original homework solution (blue for math and procedural errors, red for understanding errors), and provide an assessment of the other 3 group members. These will be collected and graded. It is important to note that even if the homework solution is covered with red marks, the student can still get an A for the assignment if they really worked hard and were honest about their effort. Below are some of the forms we will be using that represent the grading rubric for the reflections and peer assessments (these are adapted from the Mazur Group with permission).


Homework Scoring Sheet* (click the image to get the pdf):

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Problem Set Reflection* (click the image to get the pdf):

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*Adapted from the Mazur Group with permission