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GMM Best Practice: Small Assignments
GMM Best Practice: Small Assignments

The importance of small assignments for student success

Updated over a week ago

Adding skills to Spiral Review gradually helps ensure student success and eases frustration on the part of teachers as students.

GMM Best Practice:
โ€‹Assignments should have three or fewer skills with three points per skill.

Assignment designed for student success

  • Two new skills related to today's new instruction

  • Three points per skill

Teacher view

Student view of assignment designed for student success

Assignment that will cause frustration for teachers and students

  • More than three skills included

  • Points per skill is larger or small than three points

Teacher view of assignment that will cause frustration

Student view of assignment that will cause frustration

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