Commonly, assignments of technical reports and proposals focus students' attention on four types of learning tasks:
- analyzing and organizing information for ones' self,
- communicating information to an audience in writing, including visual aids,
- generating an entire document in a prescribed format, and
- perhaps, designing and delivering a related oral presentation.
The list below includes variations on these traditional themes: tasks designed to focus students' attention on specific mental processes involved in preparing a report or proposal.
Ideas for Learning Tasks (i.e., Assignments) that Support Assessment
- Write a complete technical report
- Write a complete proposal
- Write one or more sections of a technical report or proposal:
- Research question or hypothesis
- Thesis sentence (One sentence -- the author's main point.)
- Outline including the main ideas of each section
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Statement of Assumptions
- Literature Review
- Method Section (or Materials & Methods Plan)
- Results & Discussion
- Annotated Bibliography
Making Scoring/Grading Useful for Assessment
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