If it is actually a intermediate only workshop. can we give them an assignment to do? They're not novices, so a little more should be expected from them.
One that comes to mind is the snap crackle pop hw. It goes along the lines of: "write a program that prints the numbers from 0 to 99 inclusive, for each multiple of 3 print 'snap' each multiple of 7 'crackle', and multiple of 11 'pop'" mention that if they cannot solve this in 20? minutes , they should opt to attend a beginner workshop let it be on their own merit in terms of doing and 'correctness'. This would avoid having that student who has never seems a list or loop from attending On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Greg Wilson < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-10-30 2:55 PM, Naupaka Zimmerman wrote: > >> I'd love to hear if any other people have advice for improving the >> pre-course surveys to discriminate (make everyone write a fizz-buzz in >> their language of choice? bringing a printout of their favorite geeky >> meme?) between experience levels or more broadly about how folks have >> effectively/successfully engaged groups with heterogeneous experience >> levels. >> > > I'm strongly in favor of finding out more about our learners before our > workshops and/or making sure that people attend the right ones, but there's > a trap we need to avoid. Our educational system trains people to believe > that every test counts. Even if we tell them the pre-assessment isn't a > test, some will perceive it that way, and if they can't get the right > answers, they won't sign up for the workshop. Ironically, these are often > exactly the people we most want to help. I don't know how big a problem > this is (I don't even know what metric I'd use), but several conversations > in the past two years make me believe it's big enough that we need to > design for it. > > Thanks, > Greg > > -- > Greg Wilson > Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. > software-carpentry.org >
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