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Exams focus on breadth
In most disciplines, there are specific bodies of knowledge that students are expected to learn.
Exams enable assessors to test the students’ breadth of understanding of topics.
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The purpose of assessments
Good assessment programs use a range of strategies and tasks, in varying contexts, to understand what students know and can do.
Tasks must also be “fit for purpose”. A task assessing base knowledge will look different from one assessing creativity.
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Exams enhance learning
Studying for exams deepens learning.
- Searching through one's memory and retrieving the relevant information strengthens the memory pathway.
- Learning is particularly strong when students self-test rather than passively learning by rote.
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How to build general skills
People that develop expertise in multiple areas are able to solve a wide range of problems.
The key is to gain broadly valuable skills:
- Breadth comes from specificity. General skills are built from large libraries of specific knowledge.
3. Focus on The Two Important Questions
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"Did Well" and "Do Differently"
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Multidisciplinary knowledge is key
Being multidisciplinary means collecting knowledge from lots of different disciplines and areas of life and building an approach to understanding the world that integrates all that knowledge into a cohesive framework, to face reality in all its complexity.
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