Overview
- When: 8 novembre 1996
- Where: Rainey Hall lounge, UT Austin
- Focal point of semester coursework
- Tests the sum of students' learning
- Role-play: motivating
- Empowers students with their own learning
- Creates situation for peer learning/ evaluation
Preparation
- Group composition: free grouping, min 2 / max 3 students per group
- Preparatory class activities enable students to follow guidelines
- More info
Set-up
- One week prior to event:
Invitation to "clients"
(peers, French colleagues, people from the francophone business community)
- Specific roles assigned
Evaluation
- Evaluation sheets for "clients" (outsiders & peers)
- Global group grade for written materials
- Criteria
- accuracy and professionalism
- peer responsibility
- peer monitoring
- Individual oral grade
- performance in role-play
- accuracy AND participation
- Expected know how (see guidelines).
- Final decision: teacher's observational skills and awareness during role-play plus
commentaries from evaluation sheets.
- Prizes attribued to all.
Conclusion
- highly challenging, stimulating
- highly intensive, high energy
- fun!
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