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Importance of Assessment Talk
How do we move students from being mere passive recipients of grades to becoming active, empowered participants in the assessment process? This question at the heart of a recent post by Tania Lattanzio,...
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Hi Tom, Thanks for this discussion thread. The application of AoIs can certainly present challenges throughout the experimenting process. You ask if AoI 4 can be justified. I believe some questions your student will need to address include,...
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Dear Tom, Thank again for identifying this. Hope that you enjoying teaching it. My best regards, Anton
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This is from p23 of the guide. "Some genres and styles may lend themselves to being explored through one area; others may be creatively explored through multiple areas". Could a student justify the AO4 route?
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Site authorDear Tom, Thank you for your questions. I would like to provide some additional context to supplement what Jim has already provided. Firstly, the quotation from p. 23 that you have included relates to how certain works may fall under...
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