complete them. Learners should be given the necessary guidance before they start with the project and their progress must be monitored throughout the project. Be wary of prescribing projects that are beyond the cognitive level of the learners, or that will simply involve duplicating facts and data from reference material. The teacher should give clear criteria and instructions to guide learners. Determine which resources will be required and ensure that learners will have access to those resources. Learners must know the due date and how marks will be assigned.
Projects can be used to test a range of skills and competencies. A project should require
learners to solve a problem. Learners will need to show these skills: • planning, preparing, investigating and researching • performing the task to a set of criteria • producing a product such as a presentation or a written report with introduction, main body, conclusion and recommendations
• applying their knowledge, innovation and creativity.
Assignments An assignment is an individual task, similar to tests and examinations. However, the assignment should be an extended piece of work with a focus on more demanding work than that covered in class. The assignment can include past questions, but should also include more challenging aspects encouraging the learner to use additional material to help them. The assignment can be completed at home.
Case studies and data responses
With case studies, learners are presented with a real-life situation, a problem or the description of an incident related to the topic. The text for case studies can come from various media sources such as newspaper and magazine articles, television or radio presentations. Case studies are a very good way of keeping the subject up-to-date and relevant. Learners have to read or listen to the case study before answering the questions that
are both based on and related to the content. Questions can be from lower-order questions when learners respond to or provide direct quotes from the article, to higher- order questions when they are asked to analyse comments and possibly make suggestions based on their own experience. Other forms of data response questions can be cartoons, graphs, advertisements, and so on, that learners are expected to engage with before answering a set of questions.
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