User:Tamara Gajst

DARM, 2017 Homework

Homework 1

Homework 1a: Open policy practice

I decided to answer the following three questions, since I found them interesting enough and didn't exactly know what I would answer with my existing knowledge.

Q: What are co-creation skills?

If I understood correctly, co-creation skills represent a set of a variety of skills needed in the process of decision making in order to better organise the information which are the basis for a good decision and are useful in open policy practice. Important skills are, according to the given material, divided into 4 categories:

• Encouragement (skills, which aid people in decision making, make functional information and skills to learn from other people)

• Synthesis (skills important to synthesise information in such way, to produce a structured and practical from)

• Open data (skills that help to manipulate data so that they can be used in models and represent some kind of a variable)

• Modelling (skills for assessment modelling development by using different tools and methods such as probabilities, R-tools in Opasnet etc.)

Q: What is open assessment?

The so-called open assessment, refers to a methodology of structured information for the decision making in which anyone can participate and comment with the help of internet tools (Opasnet). An understandable structure of information and scientific practice is the basis of this method. The information is structured in a way (I see it as some kind of a flowchart), so that it predicts different outcomes based on certain decisions.

Q: What are the dimensions of openness?

Dimensions of openness include scope of participation, access to information, timing of openness, scope of contribution and impact of contribution, all which are used in the evaluation of an assessment.

Material used in answering the questions:

1. Open policy practice
2. Open assessment

Homework 1b: Learn the terms in Quizlet

I checked out the 5 Quizlets and tried different things in each - flashcards, learn, test and gravity (which is actually kind of weird :) ). And I found the "reading out lout" of the learning part quite annoying if I accidentally clicked it. Otherwise, a nice enrichment to otherwise only reading the terms. I like the variability.

Homework 1c: Introduction to critical thinking

I joined the Khan Academy and followed the course of Critical thinking. Even though I only watched a few videos, I did all the practices...the exercises didn't alway work though - sometimes the page just had the question and then only after page reload, the whole question was visible. I also found it confusing, since the questions seem to be in a loop and there's no real end, so I had no idea how many questions I had to answer and stopped answering when the questions started repeating. In this view, I prefer Quizzlet, since I find it easier and it seemed to work better while doing the exercises (all the quizzes worked). I also learned some new concepts, so it was useful :).

Homework 1d: Introduction to probabilities

I checked the materials and did the exercises. I have to say that it was good to refresh the memory, since in some cases, I needed some time to figure out the correct result and had to check out the material.