Assignments
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PUTTING TOGETHER ASSIGNMENTS
Presentation to new faculty
Amanda Bayer
Department of Economics
Monday, September 24, 2012
Use weekly assignments to reinforce and to extend a previous week's work and to prepare for a future week's work.
Weekly assignments are often not directly important in the calculation of the final grade, but always indirectly.
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- Variation
Include a mix of activities...readings, quizzes, problems, big questions, little questions. |
- Repetition
Repeat concepts in various contexts.
Why?
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- Action
Require students to engage actively with the material, and use questions to focus attention on particularly important ideas or passages in the readings.
Why?
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- Interaction
Consider encouraging students to work together in groups, formal or informal.
Why?
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- Creation
Give the students some freedom to do some original thinking within even a very structured assignment.
Why?
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