ARVO abstracts assessment task

Task name: ARVO abstracts assessment/‘Hot off the press’ task.

Task description: Educator provides students with a list of 10 conference abstracts (e.g. ARVO conference). Task for students is to pick a single abstract and to identify the ‘gap of knowledge’ in the textbook that the abstract attempts to address. Students log the process/journey of the task summarising the assignment process. Outlining their thoughts/frustrations etc. Submission is the relevant textbook page number and paragraph along with their reflective critique.

This task is part of an aligned series of tasks. A prior task includes drawing a mind map of topics. They also submit a written work. It is the context of this task which makes it worthwhile. It is not standalone.

Year level: 2

Assessment: 10%