ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE 26One-Sentence Summary
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Description and Purpose
In One-Sentence Summary, the instructor asks students to summarize the most important ideas from a lecture by crafting them into a single sentence. This variation of Angelo and Cross's (1993) classroom assessment technique of the same name is intended to provide students with practice summarizing information by using a predetermined structure to help guide their work.
The One-Sentence Summary offers students an opportunity to practice concisely synthesizing the main point of a lecture that covers a large amount of information. When students have to translate information ...
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