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Read the text below to learn how to formulate first class answers.

First class answer

The following is a question from a paper on the psychology of child development.


Compare and contrast the consequences of blindness and deafness for language development.


This is how students who gained different degree classifications seem to have interpreted the question.

First class

‘Identify the consequences of blindness and deafness for language development. Compare and contrast these consequences, drawing conclusions about the nature of language development. Comment on the adequacy of theories of language development in the light of your conclusions.’

Upper second class

‘Identify the consequences of blindness and deafness for language development. Compare and contrast these consequences.’

Lower second class

‘List some of the features of blindness and deafness. List some consequences for development including a few for language development.’

Third class

‘Write down almost anything you can think of about blindness, deafness, child development and language development. Do not draw any justified conclusions.’

Examples taken from: Habeshaw, T. et al. (1995) 53 interesting ways of helping your students to study. Technical and Educational Services Ltd, Bristol.

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