Evaluating a New Exercise

These are the guidelines for evaluating primers and exercises:

• Does the exercise follow the standard layout?
• Is the objective clearly stated at the beginning?
• Is the objective interesting?
• Is it measurable - can someone say at the end, "Yes, I got that"?
• Is the stated topic covered adequately?
• Are adequate examples given?
• Is the exercise understandable?
• Is it interesting?
• Does the exercise provide adequate practice in this tool?
• Try it. Is it doable?
• Can the results of the exercise be critiqued?
• Do the critique guidelines focus attention on the theory elements of the exercise, and make the critique itself a further lesson?
• Are there other standards that could be used for the critique?

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Anitra