Interpretation and intervention skills: 6 ways to develop your assessment skills

By Andy Chandler-Grevatt2021-05-04T08:44:00

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Develop your questioning skills to help students successfully grasp concepts

This article in the Elements of assessment literacy series helps you to develop the skills to enable students to grasp new concepts. The previous articles outline strategies to develop a mental map of your subject and how to use your subject knowledge to avoid learning errors.

This article describes how to ask questions, develop interventions and model answers, all using common chemistry topics as examples.

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