Stimulating Assessment Questions
Questions
As you Assess, continue to determine and refine the question that sent you looking in the first place. You are now inviting others to visit your ideas. Be patient, open-minded and thick-skinned. Perhaps one of the questions below will help you guide your thinking.
- What findings are so critical that you must rehearse your recall of them? Can you make a list of others potentially interested in giving you feedback? If you can, start sending them your drafts. You can't? Then link back to the LOOK section to find publications and computer conferences that are relevant to your work and build a collection of names that you can recall as you need them.
- Can you analyze your work by sorting its ideas in the order of their importance? Do you make your most important point first or last?
- Can you make comparisons between your previous work and this current piece? Contrast this piece with your favorite creation on this topic.
- What are the inferences that you have used in this piece? Predict which one critics will find is the least supported by reasonable cause and effect. Can this be better supported?
- Do you avoid moral implications in your work? Why? In evaluating your work in progress, what aspects of it do you most want critics to address?
As you compose to evoke a response, you need feedback and the distance of a different viewer. The questions, suggestions and processes below suggest different ways of seeking formative evaluation, that is, a critique of a work in progress. This does not mean that everything suggested must be added or done to your work. You will have to filter and weigh their ideas as the reviewers have done with yours. But the process does bring many useful comments. Make it your personal goal that work not commented on by others in some way is the exception, not the rule. Each of the five levels of thinking skills below provides a useful set of question formats to assist your development.
But the issue of thinking goes beyond learning and using these five levels. The Thinking Home Page addresses other related thinking activity.
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