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Worksheet Content
This page details what the semantic content of a worksheet should contain.
A good question is
- Clear in what it wants the student to accomplish
- Targeted to a specific learning goal that is relevant to the course
- Free of complexities that do not contribute to the student's learning
- Free of errors in grammar, spelling, and logic
- Interesting
A good worksheet is
- Composed of good questions
- Diverse in the learning goals it covers and the difficulty levels of its problems
- Not too long
Worksheet metas have provided a "Recommended Timeline" at the top of the document that lays out the suggested structure of a section and the amount of time each question on the worksheet should take.
These times should be accurate. In past semesters, the timing listed on the worksheet was frequently incorrect because the content team would start with the (typically incorrect) presumption that the entire worksheet should take one hour and then simply divide that hour into the several questions of the worksheet. In one particularly egregious case, a timeline recommended that mini-lecture and the first problem should take all of two minutes. Misleading times are not helpful to mentors and create an unrealistic and toxic expectation that the entire worksheet should be completed within an hour, which few (if any) mentors actually accomplish.
In the recommended timeline, be candid about how much time each question might realistically take and the tradeoffs that mentors must make in order to finish in time. Also emphasize that it is never expected that they finish every question in the worksheet.
Plagiarism is not just a scary word professors use to scare you. It has ethical implications, practical issues, and consequences outside of a formal academic setting. You must take care that the providence of problems in the repository is well-accounted for and that you do not copy problems without due credit.
- The bottom of each worksheet should list the names of the content team or those the people who created the worksheet. In the past, the names of the coords and SMs were at the bottom of the sheet. They did not create the worksheet and should not receive credit for creating it.
- The CSM 61A repository is licensed under an open source license, which requires that the worksheet problems be attributed. This attribution must remain on the worksheet for legal reasons. No one, not even the President of CSM, has the authority to remove this copyright notice.
- Because the content team is attributed, we do not attribute individual problems created "in-house" to their specific creators.
- For special worksheets whose problems are not created by the content team, such as those used for review sessions, the footer should be modified to recognize the work of the people who curated the worksheet.
- It is acceptable to source some problems from external sources such as old course exams. However, in every case where an external resource is copied, appropriate credit must be given. This credit must be visible on the public worksheet. Not only is this the right thing to do, it will help us determine the history of problems in the problem bank once you have left the course.
Major Contributors: Gabe Classon