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Building Better Research Assignments

How Can We Improve This Assignment?

Here is a fictional assignment requiring students to research a politician. How could this assignment be improved?


What are the strengths? What are the weaknesses? How can this assignment be improved?

Ideas for Improving the Assignment

Let's first look at how this assignment ties into course/subject Learning outcomes, assessment (10% weighting),  Due Date and Topic:


Let's next look at re-structuring some of the criteria required as information sources: