Goals

Show mastery of material

 

Details

Duration: 45 minutes

Assessments: Performance/presentation (i.e. speech, play), Oral defense

 

Description

As part of the exhibition, students were expected to answer questions about their research papers and talkshows to show mastery of the content. Students were not given the questions before exhibtion night. This required them to re-read their research papers to ensure that they knew the material well enough to respond to questions that asked them to synthesize information.

The attached documents are questions we came up with for some of our students for the panel questions. We gave these documents to the panelists (teachers) at the exhibition and encouraged the panelists to ask follow up questions and really challenge the students.

Panel Questions
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Panel Questions
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Author Reflections

This reminded me of a college dissertation (maybe that's a bit strong!). Students were really nervous about the questions they would be asked! The questions were challenging. After the exhibition, there was one student who told us that she felt we were too easy on her compared to other students. The kdis liked the feeling of being an expert. They were proud that they knew more about their topic than most people in the room.