Peer Review

Karma's Social Status and Role Activity

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Reviewed:: Dec 14, 2019 by Sociology

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Overview:

This free standing interactive activity is designed to help students think about and distinguish between the concepts of social status and social role. It demonstrates how the two are related yet distinct concepts. It also helps students differentiate between the concepts of role conflict and role strain.

Type of Material:

Learning object repository, drill and practice

Recommended Uses:

This tool can be used within a classroom to follow up a presentation. It can also be used within a learning management system while viewing a lecture or reading materials on these concepts.

Since the responses of each student are scored, this may give feedback to the instructor on how well the students are learning these concepts and applications.

Technical Requirements:

Use of high speed internet and graphics software such as Java

Identify Major Learning Goals:

The goals are to allow students individually or in groups to differentiate the concepts of social status and social roles. Further, to explore in a similar manner, recognize the role conflicts and role strain that may relate to the social roles.

Target Student Population:

College introductory courses in sociology.

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Since this is a free standing activity, students should be instructed on the concepts in the context of sociological theory. This resource can then be used as a follow up and for introspective learning from student experience.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

This is a well thought out and creative activity to stimulate student introspection. Instructions for how to complete each exercise are simple and clear. Students could use it to review the course material.

Concerns:

The concepts are identified but nowhere are they defined. There is also no identifying model upon which the concepts are based and no supporting resources to help define the concepts or the focus of the exercises.

It could be revised to include less information on each slide. Each drag and drop had too much information on the slide and can be overwhelming.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:: This is a quick activity for students to review basic sociological concepts.
Concerns:: A major limitation of this resource is that correct answers are not shared with students. Therefore, it is limited in its use. It could be used in class as a demonstration rather than as an individual review activity.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

The exercises are simple, creative, fun, and easy to use.

Concerns:

Once, you drag and drop, you can no longer see what item you dropped upon (it's covered up). There is too much material on each slide.

Other Issues and Comments:

The application of this site could be made easier if there was an introductory page which defines the concepts including examples.

Although there is a final scoring, this site would be most effective if feedback could be given interactively as the student selects their answers.

Slides need to be revised -- use mail carrier instead of "postman"; delivery driver instead of "delivery man"; woman instead of "girl".

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