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Describe one traditional method and one non-traditional method you would use to assess the students' performance of developing a curriculum to teach 6th graders how to write a research paper. Students will be able to develop an outline for a basic research paper.

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Describe one traditional method and one non-traditional method you would use to assess the students' performance of developing a curriculum to teach 6th graders how to write a research paper? (Students will be able to develop an outline for a basic research paper.)
Research paper writing comes under the purview of development of writing skills.

One of the traditional method of assessing middle school age students' performance is that of giving them an assignment to work on, by referring to the text and work book and asking them to write a mock paper. Students are given a lesson on how to write a research paper, but they are not led through the process of actually conducting a study to write about.

Although, this strategy is okay in providing imitation based learning and giving instruction with the help of a ...

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