Test and revise - Tony Earl

4.3.6 Some minor but critical faults

‘Tek frak’, ‘tooterm’, ‘non crit art’, ‘non crit info’, ‘transition’, ‘wow!’ and ‘speed up’ were some of the editing codes used in editing self-study texts in Basic Systems Inc, New York, in the ’60s. Continue reading 4.3.6 Some minor but critical faults

4.3.7 An always avoidable fault

This refers to any breakdown in the relationship between components in referent 2 (the nth generation of the specified needs). Continue reading 4.3.7 An always avoidable fault

4.3.8 A fundamental fault

If I were a millionaire, I would give away T-shirts with a special emblem; designers of instruction (myself included) would get four each. The emblem reminds us of a fundamental truth about ourselves and about our students. This truth has been mentioned before (par. 1.10): each of us has four quadrants in our make-up. If, in thinking up and working out designs, we forget this, we will have made a fundamental fault. Continue reading 4.3.8 A fundamental fault

4.4 Case study no. 5: Riding out the storm

In this case study we return to the Botany students and their encounter with the use of the scientific method of enquiry into the phenomenon of apical dominance in plants. The results, you will remember, were not all that we hoped for in this think-band-do-for-yourself type of experiment. The encounter in most groups scored too low on effectiveness (-/+) and efficiency (-/+). What was the problem? What was the solution? Continue reading 4.4 Case study no. 5: Riding out the storm