The Mind Museum: Quick Tour

As part of our course requirement last semester in ScieEd502, we have to discuss Field Trip as a teaching strategy and of course we have to experience it! After a lot of considerations (schedule, proximity, budget, and of course learnings), our class decided to have our Field Trip at The Mind Museum of Taguig City. 

It was scheduled one Saturday, but since I have another subject to attend to and I badly needed to be present that day, I had my own field trip earlier than the scheduled class' field trip. This will be my first time visiting this Science Museum, and fortunately, I'm just by myself... 

Here are some of the photographs of the exhibits that really captured my interest. For complete list of exhibits, refer to my references below.

The Mind Museum

The Mind Museum

The Mind Musem

Robot outside the Entrance

The First Automobile on Philippine Roads

Robot named Aedi (it's IDEA, spelled reverse)

Staan, the T. rex

Air

Earth

Neptune

The Atom

Electric Table

Newton's Cradle

Periodic Table

The Human Brain

Bernoulli's Principle

Evolution?

Earthquake Simulator

Ticket

Visits to The Mind Museum are designed in 3-HOUR TIME SLOTS, WITH ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF VISITORS ALLOWED PER TIME SLOT.

Operating Hours: Tuesdays - Sundays (closed on Mondays)
TIME SLOTS ARE:
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.(Saturdays only)*
*There are no Mind Movers at this time slot.



References:
The Mind Museum Website - themindmuseum.org
List of Complete Exhibits - ourawesomeplanet.com/awesome/2012/03/mind-museum-at-taguig-guide.html

Making Multiple-Choice Exam Easy to Check

by: J. Policarpio

According to Wikipedia, multiple choice is a form of assessment in which respondents are asked to select the best possible answer (or answers) out of the choices from a list. 

I will not be discussing about how to develop or what are the advantages or disadvantages of using such kind of test - it's another topic and i think educators are well-versed about it. This post is about making your multiple choice exam easy to check.

I've got this idea when I was in another College, I was at the Registrar and the staff there are checking the Entrance Examination of the applicants. I've asked if they have a template for checking but they've replied that they have the difficulty in punching the hole. Their idea was to punch the hole for the correct answer in the answer sheet, usually this is done using 'katol'. 

My suggestion was what if we do the other way around, instead of the correct answer, let's consider the wrong answers! - and fortunately, it's successful! Here's the step-by-step procedure;

Step 1: Test Construction

Test Construction

Step 2: Prepare the Answer Sheet

Preparing the Answer Sheet

Step 3: Prepare the Negative

What is the Negative?
Using your answer sheet, shade those letters that corresponds to the wrong answers. That means that the one left unshaded is the CORRECT answers, thus the name used is Negative.

Preparing the Negative

Don't forget the important stats at the bottom 

Step 4: Photocopy the Negative in a clear Acetate

Make sure that your photocopied Acetate is exactly the same as your original Negative, not enlarged or reduced.

Step 5: Check their Answer Sheets Using your Acetate

Do this by overlaying the acetate to their answer sheet. If your student is perfect the overlays of acetate and the answer sheet should look dark or black. This is because in their answer sheet they have shaded the CORRECT answer and in your Negative, you have shaded the WRONG answers. If one letter in an item appears white, that means that they have shaded the wrong answer. Count these letters that appeared white, these are the mistakes and deduct it to the number of items and that's the score!