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Use weekly assignments to reinforce and to extend previous week's work and to prepare for future week's work.
 
Use weekly assignments to reinforce and to extend previous week's work and to prepare for future week's work.
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{{hidden| |Weekly assignments are often not directly important in the calculation of the final grade, but always indirectly.
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*'''Variation'''  
 
*'''Variation'''  
 
{{hidden| |Include a mix of activities...readings, quizzes, problems, big questions, little questions.  
 
{{hidden| |Include a mix of activities...readings, quizzes, problems, big questions, little questions.  
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Examples:  
 
Examples:  
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*'''Repetition'''  
 
*'''Repetition'''  
 
{{hidden| |Repeat concepts in various contexts.
 
{{hidden| |Repeat concepts in various contexts.
 
[[Vary your assessments and retrieval exercises.|Why?]]
 
[[Vary your assessments and retrieval exercises.|Why?]]
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*'''Action'''
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{{hidden| |Require students to engage actively with the material, and use questions to focus attention on particularly important ideas or passages in the readings.
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[[Study tips|Why?]]
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*'''Interaction'''
 
*'''Interaction'''
 
{{hidden| |Consider encouraging students to work together in groups, formal or informal.
 
{{hidden| |Consider encouraging students to work together in groups, formal or informal.
 
[[Cooperative learning|Why?]]
 
[[Cooperative learning|Why?]]
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*'''Action''
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*'''Creation'''
{{hidden| |Require students to engage actively with the material, and use questions to focus attention on particularly important ideas or passages in the readings.
 
[[Study tips|Why?]]
 
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*'''Creativity'''
 
 
{{hidden| |Give the students some freedom to do some original thinking within even a very structured assignment.
 
{{hidden| |Give the students some freedom to do some original thinking within even a very structured assignment.
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not directly important in final grade, but indirectly
 
useful training to see a problem out of the blue, figure out how to approach
 
warn if not like questions on exams
 

Revision as of 14:48, 23 September 2012

PUTTING TOGETHER ASSIGNMENTS

Presentation to new faculty

Amanda Bayer

Department of Economics

Monday, September 24, 2012


Use weekly assignments to reinforce and to extend previous week's work and to prepare for future week's work.


  • Variation
  • Repetition
  • Action
  • Interaction
  • Creation