Examining Curriculum Materials: IVC: Representing Ideas Effectively
Learning Goal:
Name of material:
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Indicators - What must a material do to meet the criterion? |
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Justification and Citation How does the material meet this indicator? OR Why does this material fail to meet this indicator? Be sure to give specific examples |
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Criterion C: Representing ideas effectively Does the material include accurate and comprehensible representations of the learning goals?
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1. The material includes accurate representations related to the learning goals (or asks students to critique representations that are not accurate).
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2. The representations are likely to be comprehensible to students.
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3. The material asks students to consider what the representations show and do not show or invites them to compare the representations to what is being represented..
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4. The representations clearly distinguish between accurate ideas in the learning goals and common naïve alternatives describe in the learning research literature.
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