Bob
Teacher
Used Kognity weekly for 3-4 years
Oct 2021
For the reasons shared above. Kognity first provides a very good textbook on the IB material. This reading, combined with the school textbook (Oxford), gives students two views which can help remove somewhat incorrect concepts which arise from reading only one source. Second, Kognity provides a large bank of questions at two levels for students to practice their mastery. These along with problems assigned from the school text give a good and broad range of experience with the material for the student. Finally, Kognity provides the option of student dueling with the material which appeals to the more competitive types. The only downside is the grading of problems which look only at the answer which must be in one of a number of formats rather than the method used to get the answer.
Bob found Kognity:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“a. In the sciences, Kognity provides a large body of questions both simple and complex and this saves time making up new questions for the students. b. The teacher has the option of having Kognity grade the work, but this has difficulties which have yet to be satisfactorily solved. For instance, a student may write the correct answer but not in a form expected by Kognity and it will be marked incorrectly. Further, even if the student gets an incorrect answer, it may only be due to a calculator error and the method is correct. Since the method is more important than the answers (in the sciences at least), this can really gives the student the wrong idea about his competence. Hence, my main use of the questions is to hand them out and I grade them to see how the problems were solved.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students become more proficient by working more and a variety of problems. By combining the two levels of problems from Kognity with those found in our textbook (not to mention Kognity's textbook, which, in most cases, is better than ours) the students get a large number of problems to work. Those who are diligent to complete the assigned work will be better prepared for the IB exams.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“By providing a good textbook on the IB material, the students get the same material from somewhat different perspectives and this helps dispel incorrect concepts.”
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