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Universities should ban PowerPoint (Measuring the wrong things If slide…
Universities should ban PowerPoint
Any university can deploy similar testing to measure student learning.
We would be able to quantify the relationship between PowerPoint use and learning
Doing so would facilitate rigorous evaluations of different teaching methods
Unfortunately, many key drivers of learning appear to reduce student satisfaction and vice versa.
We would be able to investigate dozens of learning correlates and eventually establish what works and what doesn't.
As long as universities continue to measure satisfaction but not learning, the downward spiral of lower expectations, less hard work and less learning will continue.
What is so wrong with PowerPoint?
requiring students to read books
attend classes
Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting
take notes and do homework is unreasonable.
Courses designed around slides therefore propagate the myth that students can become skilled
knowledgeable without working through dozens of books, hundreds of articles and thousands of problems.
PowerPoint did not increase learning or grades
Liking something doesn't make it effective
there's nothing to suggest transparencies are especially effective learning tools either.
Measuring the wrong things
If slide shows are so bad, why are they so popular?
Governments measure unemployment and gross domestic product
ven this website measures readership, broken down by article and author
Corporations measure revenue and profit.
universities don't measure learning.
Hospitals measure morbidity and mortality
Exams, term papers and group projects ostensibly measure knowledge or ability
Universities measure student satisfaction but they do not measure learning
Learning is the change in knowledge and skills and therefore must be measured over time.
They tested students in the beginning, middle and end of their degrees using the Collegiate Learning Assessment
When we do attempt to measure learning, the results are not pretty
an instrument that tests skills any degree should improve - analytic reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving and writing.
US researchers found that a third of American undergraduates demonstrated no significant improvement in learning over their four-year degree programs.
PowerPoint slides are toxic to education for three main reasons:
students come to think of a course as a set of slides
Slides discourage reasonable expectations.
Slides discourage complex thinking