{"id":78,"date":"2020-06-12T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/?p=78"},"modified":"2020-07-02T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:52:58","slug":"building-identity-with-large-student-cohorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/building-identity-with-large-student-cohorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Building identity with large student cohorts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first started teaching intro stats, student interaction was low, and lectures felt like the students were passively listening. In an attempt to build cohort engagement and motivation I decided to create an activity which required students to come up with a name for themselves. Then to go with this name, I asked them to come up with a cohort logo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/statsmancat.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/statsmancat.png 960w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/statsmancat-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/statsmancat-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the last four semesters, I have asked students to come up with a name for their stream and to design a logo to match. I give students a period of time to email me with their suggestions and designs, and then we put it to a class vote. Below are some examples of the logos my students designed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rhys-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rhys-1.png 703w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rhys-1-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One of our goals for this project is to increase interactivity between the lecturer and the students in the large lecture streams. Students engaged very well with the activity, and enjoyed the creation of an explicit cohort identity. I believe this helped students bond with each other, which had the knock on effect of improving and sustaining student attendance at lecturers, and also made them more engaged during these sessions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building cohort identity to facilitate an improvement in students&#8217; engagement and motivation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}