If College Students Choose the Genre in Which They Complete Their Assignments, Will It More Accurately Represent Their True Knowledge?
Abstract
Author's abstract: Are we limiting college students' educational success when we require them to communicate course assignments in a professor's dictated genre? Students from elementary through high school are rarely given the choice of how they can express their knowledge of a subject. Teachers decide year after year how students will respond to what is taught… I wonder if they would even know what their strengths are if they had a choice? This research project will educate students about their learning preferences and allow them the freedom to express themselves in course assignments. First students will take the ‘BE Learning Styles Inventory' a solid research based internationally respected measurement. They will learn their strength and preferences using 28 eight different criteria from these areas: psychological, physiological, sociological, environmental, perception and emotional. Next students will be given the choice of genres to use when responding to course reading, articles, and experiences. Here are the suggested: video photography, computer graphics, improvisation, poetry, drama, music composition, photography, drawing, dance or movement, sculpture or another approved by professor medium
Location
Room 2904
Recommended Citation
Worley, Sara, "If College Students Choose the Genre in Which They Complete Their Assignments, Will It More Accurately Represent Their True Knowledge? " (2012). SoTL Commons Conference. 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2012/6
If College Students Choose the Genre in Which They Complete Their Assignments, Will It More Accurately Represent Their True Knowledge?
Room 2904
Author's abstract: Are we limiting college students' educational success when we require them to communicate course assignments in a professor's dictated genre? Students from elementary through high school are rarely given the choice of how they can express their knowledge of a subject. Teachers decide year after year how students will respond to what is taught… I wonder if they would even know what their strengths are if they had a choice? This research project will educate students about their learning preferences and allow them the freedom to express themselves in course assignments. First students will take the ‘BE Learning Styles Inventory' a solid research based internationally respected measurement. They will learn their strength and preferences using 28 eight different criteria from these areas: psychological, physiological, sociological, environmental, perception and emotional. Next students will be given the choice of genres to use when responding to course reading, articles, and experiences. Here are the suggested: video photography, computer graphics, improvisation, poetry, drama, music composition, photography, drawing, dance or movement, sculpture or another approved by professor medium
