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ExercisesWhat is the difference between an exercise and an assessment? Even a formative assessment is basically looking backwards, to what has already been learnt or achieved. In my book, exercises are ways of setting an agenda, of raising issues which can then be explored in more detail, of looking forwards. Of course, this is not incompatible with assessment, and the terms don't matter much anyway.
The page links below will take you to descriptions of a few exercises which meet my definition, with a few remarks about how to make them work most effectively, born of bitter experience! The list is not of course exhaustive, but each one represents a "family" of exercises which can be elaborated for your own purposes, related in this case to a revised version of Bloom's taxonomy.
The Basic Rules
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There are of course thousands of exercises out there on the net. Use Google below to search for them in your own subject. But remember that the effectiveness of any exercise is contextual. You can't just pick it off the shelf and expect it to work well; you need to adopt and then adapt it to your own context and your own practice. Otherwise you will just be going through the motions rather than using it with conviction |
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Original material © James Atherton: last up-dated 15 August, 2005