Formative Assessments: Our Compass for Understanding Affective, Cognitive, and Physical Aspects of Information Search Processes

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I’m currently working with a section of American Literature/Composition students who have been asked to look at a historical or current event that embodies a degree of hysteria or abuse of power and compare that to the hysteria or abuse of power in the play The Crucible. This research task is a fairly typical high school assignment for this text and course. Initially, the teacher wanted me to cover five major areas of research in one class period in lecture fo...