Reporting your study system in one page

Step 1 Warm-up recall

From M8.L3: give a careful way to word a conclusion from a small test.

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Step 2 Learning goal

By the end of this lesson you can:

• write the five parts (Foundation);
• budget words for a page (Core);
• turn results into a next step (Core).

Step 3 A familiar example

A good report is a letter to your future self: what you tried, what happened and what to do next.

Step 4 Clear explanation

A short report makes you commit to what you found. Use five parts: question, method, results, limits and next step.

The word budget adds up: 30 + 60 + 60 + 50 + 50 = 250. Put the numbers in a small table, with raw counts and percentages. State the limits plainly: small sample, one person, short test, and any session that went wrong. End with a next step that follows from the results, such as "keep retrieval practice for new topics, test a spaced schedule next month, and review the log each Sunday" (Module 7).

Your study system is then a short list: how you plan (Module 7), how you practise (Modules 3 to 5), how you protect sleep and focus (Module 6) and how you will check it. Keep it with the report and revise it as the evidence grows. See spacing effect and retrieval practice for the research behind the main parts.

Step 5 Worked example (4 marks)

You have 300 words and give results 90 words, limits 60, next step 50 and question 40. How many words are left for the method?

1. Used: 90 + 60 + 50 + 40 = 240. (1 mark)
2. Method = 300 − 240. (1 mark)
3. = 60 words. (1 mark)
4. Answer: 60 words. (1 mark)

Step 6 Learner practice (instant-marked)

Step 7 Recap

• Five parts: question, method, results, limits, next step.
• Budget words and show counts in a table.
• Turn results into a concrete next step.

Step 8 Exit ticket (ungraded)

List the five parts of the report in order.

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Step 9 Go further (Extension)

Draft the results table for your own self-test.