Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

1. Unpacking the assignment brief and criteria
2. Finding and evaluating sources
3. Planning and referencing
4. Planning your search strategy 2025
5. Craap Test for evaluating sources
6. Citing and referencing using the Harvard Style

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Explain the aim of lesson planning.
• 1.2 Describe the characteristics of an effective lesson plan.
• 1.3 Describe how to design lesson plans that incorporate the goals and needs of learners.
• 2.1 Analyse learning styles and learning taxonomies to be included when planning a lesson.
• 2.2 Explain how lesson plans incorporate learning styles and taxonomies.
• 2.3 Explain how to ensure lesson plans are inclusive.
• 3.1 Explain how to prepare an effective lesson plan.
• 3.2 Analyse the need for flexibility and adaptability in the design of lesson plans.
• 3.3 Explain how lesson plan design affects the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning.
• 4.1 Design a lesson plan that meets the individual needs of learners.
• 4.2 Use lesson plans to monitor learners’ achievements and progress.
• 4.3 Explain how to enable learners and others to provide feedback to inform lesson planning.
• 5.1 Define: • assessment • evaluation.
• 5.2 Analyse the use of different methods of assessment and evaluation.
• 5.3 Explain the use of differentiated assessments to incorporate the individual needs of learners.
• 5.4 Explain how analysis of assessment and evaluation results can be used to inform lesson planning.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Videos

• Planning your search strategy 2025 · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 24 min · for registered students
• Craap Test for evaluating sources · YouTube · Talking Libraries and Books · 7 min · for registered students
• Citing and referencing using the Harvard Style · YouTube · UCDLibrary · 7 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Writing for Success, ch. 8.1–8.3: Prewriting, outlining and drafting · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 281–318 · for registered students
• Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Other, report · for registered students