Productive use of exemplars for positive transfer of strategies

What is it about?

This paper discusses how exemplars can be used to enhance student understanding of quality and to promote positive transfer of strategies and skills from exemplars to assessment task.

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Why is it important?

Some practitioners express concerns about negative transfer from exemplars (student copying from outstanding samples). This paper explores what kinds of pre-assessment activities can be conducted to develop students' criticality in exemplar use and to promote positive transfer of strategies and skills from exemplars and their assessment tasks.