An OTLA project by The College of West Anglia that aimed to pilot the use of small, simple sentence starters to frame a response which would also be repeated for reading and used for all questions.
This project aimed to overcome learner confusion over study skills and exam technique, by identifying small, simple sentence starters for students to frame a response.
The project identified that confusion and a lack of confidence, caused by the wide variety of teaching methods that students had experienced in school, required a more simplified and streamlined approach. They created replicable sentence starters, broke down scaffolding for learners, and applied them to improve exam technique. The project reported that the resultiing framework had had a significant effect on learner understanding, competence and confidence.
OTLA 6 (English)