Hi All:
I certainly agree that quizzes are a bad thing. But, this class is a technical elective for engineering, and I do need to have a ABET accreditation report completed by December 23rd. I have a lot of other things to do with this class, and two other classes.
ABET would be very happy with quiz scores and a brief paragraph. Reading and scoring and scanning the canvases (there are 75 of them) for the ABET binder...not so fun.
I think the students really enjoyed the business model canvas! It was the first time I used it.
A quiz, though bad, would save me many, many hours for ABET. Does anyone have one?
Thanks!
John R. Callister
Senior Lecturer, MAE & ORIE Departments
Director of the Harvey Kinzelberg Entrepreneurship in Engineering Program
Faculty Advisor, Cornell Entrepreneur Organization
College of Engineering
Cornell University
291 Grumman Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853-7501
Office: 607-255-5545
Cell: 607-339-7420
jc62@cornell.edu
Quiz? NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! This experiential learning, isn't it? (John, sorry but you were the one who stepped on the tripwire. Multiple-choice is pretty much a worst practice and especially so in experiential learning.)
We have to quit teaching people *about* entrepreneurship and focus 100 percent on helping them to learn how to think and act like an entrepreneur.
Anyway, multiple-choice is a terrible way to assess what they've learned. If you want to know how many factoids they've learned, maybe. Maybe. (And memorization ain't learning.)
You want to assess what they have internalized, whether they will use it and use it skillfully. How has it changed how they think? A quiz will only capture items of information that have been poured into their heads.Imperfectly.
Lean and business model tools represent a mindset, not just facts they have memorized. You wouldn't give them a quiz about entrepreneurship, would you?
So my challenge to ENTREP is... how do YOU assess experiential learning?
[Rabble-rousing font/off] ;)
On Dec 11, 2013 9:19 PM, "John Richard Callister" <
jc62@cornell.edu> wrote:
Hi:
Does anyone have a good multiple choice quiz on the business model canvas?
I am suffering from quiz-writers block. Thanks.
John R. Callister
Senior Lecturer, MAE & ORIE Departments
Director of the Harvey Kinzelberg Entrepreneurship in Engineering Program
Faculty Advisor, Cornell Entrepreneur Organization
College of Engineering
Cornell University
291 Grumman Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853-7501
Office: 607-255-5545
Cell: 607-339-7420
jc62@cornell.edu
**************************************
This message is from ENTREP which is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.
Please do not post messages with attached files. Commercial messages or spammed messages are not allowed on the list. The use of auto-responder "out-of-office" messages may also lead to your removal from the list.
You can manage your subscription options, including joining or leaving the list here:
http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=entrep&A=1
If you have questions or need help, please contact Dr. John Bunch jbunch@benedictine.edu.
Ventures HO!
************************************** This message is from ENTREP which is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Please do not post messages with attached files. Commercial messages or spammed messages are not allowed on the list. The use of auto-responder "out-of-office" messages may also lead to your removal from the list. You can manage your subscription options, including joining or leaving the list here:
http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=entrep&A=1 If you have questions or need help, please contact Dr. John Bunch
jbunch@benedictine.edu. Ventures HO!