Peer Instruction - Introduction
Cynthia Bailey-Lee
Leo Porter
Who Am I?
Cynthia Lee
• Research:
– PhD: Resource allocation in massively parallel systems
– Recently: computer science education
• Teaching:
– 1 year at Stanford, 5 years at UCSD
– Courses: CS1 Java, CS1 Matlab, CS2 Java, CS2 C++,
theory of computation, discrete mathematics, data
structures, probability and statistics, architecture,
technical interviews prep
• Software engineer:
– iPhone educational games
– Machine learning for search engines
• When I’m not working:
– Biking, climbing, hiking, volleyball
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Who Am I?
Leo Porter
• Research:
– PhD: Computer Architecture (UCSD)
• Speculative Multithreading
• Thread Migration
– Recent: computer science education, high
performance computing
• Teaching:
– 1 class USD, 1 class UCSD, 3 years Skidmore
– Courses: CS1 Java, architecture, computer
organization, operating systems, Plagues and
Peoples, Genetically Modified Organisms
• Consulting:
– EP Analytics – HPC research for the DoD
• Past life
– Officer in the Navy (2000-2004)
• When I’m not working:
– Running, swimming, triathlons
– Chasing my son...
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Overview
• Day 1:
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Intros, what to look for in our observation
Class video observation
15 minute break (about 9:30)
Breakouts: imagine PI
Wrap-up
• Day 2:
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Best practices
Identifying starting points and materials for you
Question design strategies, develop your own questions
15 minute break (about 9:30)
Question design debrief and evaluation
Wrap-up: institutional strategies, support going forward
Lecture hall
How instructors see this
How students view this
Measures alterations in
emotional, cognitive,
and attention. Stress.
Attention grabbing
stimuli. Attention
demanding tasks.
Poh, Ming-Zher,
Nicholas C. Swenson,
and Rosalind W. Picard.
"A wearable sensor for
unobtrusive, long-term
assessment of
electrodermal activity.“
Biomedical Engineering,
IEEE Transactions
on 57.5 (2010): 12431252.
What is it?
Flipped Classroom with Peer Instruction
Lecture
First
Exposure
Textbook
Homework
Exam
Standard
Instruction
Read Hard Stuff See if You Show Knowledge
Know Hard Stuff
Mastery
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What is it?
Flipped Classroom with Peer Instruction
Textbook
Lecture
First
Exposure
Exam
Read Hard Stuff See if You Show Knowledge
Know Hard Stuff
Mastery
Textbook/
Online mini-lecture Q
U
I
Z
First Exposure:
Homework
Lecture
Homework
Learn Hard Stuff:
With teacher and
discussion
See if You
Know Hard Stuff
Exam
Show Knowledge
Mastery
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What is it?
Flipped
Classroom
with
Peer
Instruction
Multiple approaches here:
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Think-Pair-Share (TPS)
Textbook (PBL)
Homework
Exam
ProblemLecture
Based Learning
Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
Peer Instruction (PI)
First
Read Hard Stuff See if You Show Knowledge
Others
Exposure
Textbook/
Online mini-lecture Q
U
I
Z
First Exposure:
Know Hard Stuff
Lecture
Learn Hard Stuff:
With teacher and
discussion
Mastery
Homework
See if You
Know Hard Stuff
Exam
Show Knowledge
Mastery
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Active Learning: Peer Instruction
• Well-defined Pedagogical Methodology
– Before class
• Students perform pre-class preparation
– In class
• Students answer and discuss 4-6 questions per
class
• The instructor dynamically adjusts class based
on student understanding
Peer Instruction
1. Students individually
consider and respond to a
multiple choice question
Mazur, E. Peer Instruction: A User's Manual. Prentice Hall, 1997.
Peer Instruction
1. Students individually
consider and respond to a
multiple choice question
2. Students discuss the same
question in groups, then
submit another response
Mazur, E. Peer Instruction: A User's Manual. Prentice Hall, 1997.
Peer Instruction
1. Students individually
consider and respond to a
multiple choice question
2. Students discuss the same
question in groups, then
submit another response
3. Instructor guides students
in a class-wide discussion
Mazur, E. Peer Instruction: A User's Manual. Prentice Hall, 1997.
Peer Instruction Flow Chart
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* A visual companion to the PI Instructor Cheat Sheet http://peerinstruction4cs.org
During this upcoming class
• Play two roles during class
– Be a student again. Answer the questions,
discuss with your neighbors, and listen to
the explanation
– Examine the PI questions
• Fill out the handout for each PI question