Student Nurture - DGPE Spring 2021 – Khan Academy Help Center

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Evan Lewis

April 12, 2021 16:34
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It’s an unfortunate fact that most of the students don’t get a single comment or tip on their projects on Khan Academy. This must be especially hard this year when
so many students already feel isolated from their peers! For some of them, asking for help from the community is a big step. Others are unaware of the mistakes they are making,
and carry on in the same vein. If they don’t have a coach they risk finishing the course without being aware of their issues.

Fortunately, some students have been working hard to change that! During a 9 day period at the end of March/beginning of April, Doing Great Project Evaluations (DGPE) organized a reach-out where participating students:

Were taught feedback skills for Intro to JS projects
Were invited to attend workshops about coding skills
Offered feedback on official DGPE projects to other KA students
Helped hunt cases of plagiarism and inappropriate projects

Altogether, our team of learners and peer teachers provided feedback on 808 projects. Additionally, the reported 200 cases of plagiarized projects.

The participants were instructed to skip projects which had already received relevant feedback, so those 808 were largely projects which had neither been voted up or had any messages on them.

An0n3m0us also created a program for keeping track of feedback on official projects.

All of these students spent at least 1-2 hours, often considerably more, on the project tasks. We also had a few students who did not have the time to complete the requirement for participation, but still delivered projects. The students you contacted will appreciate your effort (even if they are silent about it), and so do we!

Are you familiar with the ideas of Adam Grant, organizational psychologist? A few years ago he gave a TED talk ‘Are you a giver or a taker?’ and the advantages of identifying and
retaining givers in the work place.

To those of you who put in more than 1-2 hours supporting other students or helping organize the event: You’ve all shown yourself as givers during this project.

To those of you who put in less, there could be numerous of legitimate reasons for it. And if you think like a giver, there is no reason to stop helping others once the project is over.

On behalf of DGPE,

Inger Hohler, Evan Lewis, and Chris Rennick

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Regina Litman

April 10, 2021 01:05
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What is DGPE? Answer it, here, please, not with a link to another site or a suggestion that I Google it. Others may be reading this and wondering, too.
AD Baker

April 11, 2021 12:57
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DGPE stands for "Doing Good Project Evaluations." This was a project that was organized to teach students how to do good peer evaluations on official Khan Academy JS projects.

In December 2020, Khan Academy discontinued peer evaluations. This spring, DGPE focused on how to give feedback to students who are self-evaluating their projects.
Inger Hohler

April 11, 2021 12:59
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Hi Regina, DGPE stands for Doing Great Project Evaluations. The DGPE project was initiated in 2017 with the blessings of Khan Academy's Laurie LeDuc and Cristina Zuazua (KA's then Community Liaison). While Pamela was employed on Khan Academy we cooperated with her on our teaching material.

We organize project feedback to students and teach feedback skills and programming skills, mainly off Khan Academy, to Khan Academy students during holidays. The DGPE students practice their feedback skills on Khan Academy under supervision. Some keep giving feedback to other KA students, and some also eventually become instructors during new events.

There is no need to go off KA to see what we are doing. This is the project's Home page, on KA! The project page contains links to shortened versions of part of what we teach.
Regina Litman

April 12, 2021 13:41
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Thanks for your reply. Would it have been too much trouble to have spelled it out in the original post? I realize that it could have been too long for the title, and to be honest, the only reason I chose to read the original post was to see what the acronym stood for.

And now, AD Baker or anyone else, what is JS? Again, please spell things out on first or only usage, with the abbreviation to be used in later references in the same post put in parentheses.
pinkpuppy22

April 12, 2021 14:31

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Hi Regina,

JS is short for JavaScript, a dynamic programming language. It's commonly used as part of web pages, and often called the language of the web.
Blue-Ice

April 12, 2021 15:11
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JS stands for JavaScript.
Inger Hohler

April 12, 2021 18:09
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I'm sure Evan Lewis can fix the issue when he has the time, Regina. Right now he's busy elsewhere.

JS is an abbreviation used on Khan Academy, by Khan Academy in the headers of the Intro to JS course. As Blue-Ice says, it stands for JavaScript.

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