|
Planning Effective Assignments
Planning Effective Assignments
entails taking many factors into consideration and making sure these
elements are accounted for over a series of assignments
- Questions which extend different Levels
of Intelligence and Thinking - Bloom's
Taxonomy more
- Required Responses which develop Different
types of Intelligence - Gardiner's
Multiple Intelligences more
- Required Responses using different
text
types
- Research requiring a wide
range of resources including the use of Technology
- Required Responses which develop a
range of skills including Technological
and Computer skills
- Tasks which develop Information
Skills and Information Literacy
- Assignments that fit the outcomes
of the syllabus
How to fight Plaigarism
New technologies have made cheating and copying by
students more accessible than ever. The solution lies in assignments
that prevent this. Assignments which ultimately ask 'how', 'why'
or 'which is best' rather than assignments that stop at 'describe'
or 'find the facts about'. The links below provide invaluable information
on this topic.
Although the question is the most important element
in preventing plagiarism there are also other simple methods.
- Asking the students to present their information in a different
format e.g. an assessment about the life in the trenches at Gallipoli
could require that the student empathizes with an imaginary soldier
and writes a series of letters home. An assignment about the life
of a famous person could be presented as an interview with that
person.
- Requiring students to hand in research notes or first drafts
- Requesting a bibliography
for every assignment
- Instructing students on the morality of doing their own research
and not copying from others
Keeping Track of the elements of your Assignments
Assignment Mapping - A spreadsheet can used to keep
track of the assignments set over a course of study to ensure there
is a variety of skills, text types etc incorporated.
|
