It’s interesting to me in light of your post about Peter Liljedahl, and Building Thinking Classrooms that both of you seem to approve of Variation Theory (he calls it “Thin Slicing” but does actually reference Variation Theory in his book). I’m sorry you got trolled. That’s not OK!
I've been using some of the principles of variation to support my A Level Religious Studies students.
By varying only one element of a question, we have been able to have some really gritty conversations about the selection of relevant information and drilling down on what the evaluative exam Qs are really asking us.
For example:
- Evaluate the claim that the ontological argument proves the existence of God
- Evaluate the claim that the ontological argument demonstrates the existence of God
- Evaluate the claim that the cosmological argument proves the existence of God
- Evaluate the claim that the cosmological argument demonstrates the existence of God
I'm speaking about it at the next A Level NATRE online meeting. Thank you!
It’s interesting to me in light of your post about Peter Liljedahl, and Building Thinking Classrooms that both of you seem to approve of Variation Theory (he calls it “Thin Slicing” but does actually reference Variation Theory in his book). I’m sorry you got trolled. That’s not OK!
I've been using some of the principles of variation to support my A Level Religious Studies students.
By varying only one element of a question, we have been able to have some really gritty conversations about the selection of relevant information and drilling down on what the evaluative exam Qs are really asking us.
For example:
- Evaluate the claim that the ontological argument proves the existence of God
- Evaluate the claim that the ontological argument demonstrates the existence of God
- Evaluate the claim that the cosmological argument proves the existence of God
- Evaluate the claim that the cosmological argument demonstrates the existence of God
I'm speaking about it at the next A Level NATRE online meeting. Thank you!
Brilliant to see the revised sequence and how you would build variation theory within these.
The variation theory website is a brilliant resource.