We understand how tricky it can be to anticipate the mistakes students are likely to make. Misconceptions often only become clear in the middle of a lesson, when time is short and attention is being pulled in lots of directions.
Craig's experience:
"For the first five years of my teaching career, I was continually surprised by the mistakes and misunderstandings of my students. Even as my experience grew, I found it difficult to consistently predict where my students may go wrong with a concept. And this is a problem because it means we need to diagnose issues in the midst of a lesson and formulate a plan to support students, all while trying to deal with the hundreds of other things vying for our attention in the classroom."
How Eedi helps
Eedi allows you to pre-empt misconceptions before you even step into the classroom. For any topic you’re about to teach, you can draw on data from hundreds of thousands of students who have already answered those questions.
Eedi automatically highlights:
The most common wrong answers students give
The likely reasons behind those answers
This gives you valuable insight into the areas where your students may struggle and lets you prepare your explanations, examples and activities accordingly.
Things to consider when planning for error
How are you going to plan your explanations, examples and activities to ensure your students do not make these mistakes?
How are you going to support students who go wrong in this way?
Perhaps you could discuss these questions with a colleague
Or, in a departmental meeting, you could discuss problematic questions for an upcoming topic, analyse the reasons students struggle, and share strategies and ideas to tackle them
How to plan for error on Eedi
Go to your "Plan" page and click the “+ Set work” button.
Select the quiz you’d like to view (you can filter by collection, topic, etc.).
Click on a question from that quiz to view how other students on Eedi have answered that question. The bar chart will reveal the most common misconceptions.
Click on each bar in the chart to reveal our answer and misconception explanations, allowing you to prepare in advance for any misconceptions that your students may have.
If you scroll down below the question, you will find all of our intervention material designed to help resolve any misconceptions that may be present.
If assigning this quiz to a class, students will see these intervention materials if we uncover a misconception. You can also use these materials in class with your students!