{"id":673,"date":"2015-03-20T13:29:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=673"},"modified":"2015-03-20T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:33:32","slug":"class-participation-bracket-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/20\/class-participation-bracket-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Participation, Bracket Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we’re in the middle of March Madness, I decided to track class participation in a bracket-style tournament format. A student advanced each time he or she directly addressed Dr. Sample in class discussion, or if Dr. Sample called on them to answer a question. One could only advance if there was an opponent available to defeat (therefore, someone who answered five straight questions would only win one matchup, not five). Although I could have played the role of the selection committee and “seeded” the field, I chose to use the list of names from the blogging groups page<\/a> in the order they are listed.<\/p>\n

The results from Tuesday’s class are below:<\/p>\n

\"observations<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we ran out of time on Tuesday to determine a single winner. Also, the Gephi workshop on Thursday prevented the bracket format for serving as a good measure of participation (since we spent more time discussing in tables rather than as a whole class).<\/p>\n

Although the bracket exercise was certainly amusing, it doesn’t appear to be the best way to determine the “best” participants; a lot of people who were bounced in the first round ended up speaking a lot later in the class, often more than the people who originally eliminated them. Perhaps the same critique could be applied to the NCAA basketball tournament<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since we’re in the middle of March Madness, I decided to track class participation in a bracket-style tournament format. A student advanced each time he or she directly addressed Dr. Sample in class discussion, or if Dr. Sample called on them to answer a question. One could only advance if there was an opponent available … Continue reading Class Participation, Bracket Style<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-1","category-observers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}