Structured Post-Evaluation Interviews and Remediation (SPEIR): A Formative Assessment Workflow.
Published in CCSCNE, 2026
Recommended citation: Pablo Frank-Bolton, Michael Robson, R. Jordan Crouser, and Rahul Simha. "Structured Post-Evaluation Interviews and Remediation (SPEIR): A Formative Assessment Workflow." Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region Northampton, MA, April 2026. http://mprobson.github.io/files/SPEIR_CCSCNE_26.pdf
We introduce Structured Post-Evaluation Interviews and Remediation (SPEIR), a workflow that extends two-tier Justified Multiple-Choice Questions (JMCQs) with guided discussions and targeted recovery opportunities to surface and address those hidden misunderstandings. Implemented across ten course sections and compared with a traditional MCQ control, SPEIR showed that correctness alone substantially overestimates understanding, while per-question analyses revealed higher rates of fully correct reasoning in SPEIR sections.
Recommended citation: Pablo Frank-Bolton, Michael Robson, R. Jordan Crouser, and Rahul Simha. “Structured Post-Evaluation Interviews and Remediation (SPEIR): A Formative Assessment Workflow.” Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region Northampton, MA, April 2026.