This document discusses strategies for increasing student accountability and engagement. It defines accountability as students being personally responsible for their actions and engagement as a willingness to participate and be meaningfully involved. The document suggests using student response systems like clickers to promote engagement through anonymity. It also advocates modeling behaviors and reflections to help develop student accountability.

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Strategies for
Increasing Student
Accountability

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o Technology
o Organic Networks
o Reflection
o Student Stories
Blooms Taxonomy
ACCOUNTABILITY

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o Accountability,
Engagement, are
they synonymous,
can one live without
the other?

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http://www.polleverywhere.com

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 Supports research that clickers can play a
key role in engagement, involvement,
participation and enjoyment.
 Students appreciated anonymity
STUDENT RESPONSE SYSTEMS & LEARNER
ENGAGEMENT IN LARGE CLASSES (HEASLIP, G ET AL., 2013)

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Engagement Accountability
• Willingness to participate, attend
class, submit work
• Meaningful learning environment
• Involved in extra-curricular
• Being called to account for one's
actions
• Students are personally responsible
for their actions
• Education provides real-life
experiences that are bearers of
moral import
DEFINITIONS

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CAFCE Week Challenge 2013
What challenges engagement?

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Sample of co-op student feedback
“It's a lot and a little stressful, but I feel better
knowing that there is help available to us
along the way.”
“Keep up the great energy! It really made me feel
as though you care about all your students
and in return we will put in the extra effort!”
“I look forward to learning a lot from this class and
hope it will enable me to begin my career”
Take Home - Strategy 1

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BRIDGING THE GAP

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Categories in the cognitive domain
of the revised Bloom's taxonomy
(Anderson et al. 2000)

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Take Home - Strategy 2
In-Class
Modeling
Finance
Association
Presentation
Circle 500
President of
Finance
Association on
MBOT :
Advantage
Working Group

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Questions
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jenny.peach@sheridancollege.ca