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

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Analyse the characteristics of group environments that facilitate learning and development.
• 1.2 Evaluate strategies to manage group dynamics.
• 1.3 Describe ways to involve learners in the management of their own learning and development in groups.
• 1.4 Explain how to manage barriers to individual learning in groups.
• 2.1 Examine the impact of class dynamics on learning.
• 2.2 Explain how to facilitate collaboration and learning between group members.
• 2.3 Explain how to use motivational approaches to engage group learning.
• 2.4 Evaluate behaviour management solutions utilised in class.
• 3.1 Explain how to support learner’s rights in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• 3.2 Describe how to minimise risks to the security, safety, health, and wellbeing of learners in groups.
• 3.3 Explain how to manage confidentiality in relation to group information exchange.
• 3.4 Explain how to maintain records in accordance with legislatory and organisational procedures.
• 4.1 Explain the tools that can be used to assess classroom dynamics.
• 4.2 Explain how to use peer observation, learner feedback and recordings.

Activity

Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Further resources

• 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
• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students