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Student learning is likely to be most effective
when students have a clear understanding of what they will learn
from a course, and what will be expected of them(
HERDSA,1992;
Ragan, 1999). Clear goals enable teachers to plan learning activities
that will have the greatest effect, and to achieve the best outcomes
by establishing guidelines on approaches to the task that will be
readily understood. Communicating high expectations can have the
advantage of becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy (
Ramsden,1992). High level goals set expectations that students
will be able to perform complex tasks requiring high levels of analysis,
investigation, flexibility and problem-solving ability to achieve.
Setting high level goals is challenging to the students, leading
to learning activities that stimulate the students to achieve high
quality outcomes (
Biggs, 1999).
Some guidelines on how you can use educational
technologies to support this:
Relevant external websites:
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