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ERRR #064. Paul Spenceley on Formative Assessment

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How to Answer Exam Questions Effectively

I would use students as much as possible to go through answers. If, for example, two thirds of the class had got an answer right and a third of them had. How would you see if twothirds of the class got there? I were using little whiteboards or by having a little vote or something like that. Then I might not even say it at that stage whether it was the one third or the two third that was right. That's very similar to Harvard professor Eric Mazou on a few episodes. And that's essentially the peer instruction approach that he's developed. So that's kind of where I've come to in terms of going through answers. The sort of thing I

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