I'm deeply concerned by the inability of many A-level students to follow written instructions. Not even using a checklist to ensure all requirements are met in a task. (E.g. draw a scientific table for experiment results) Is this just me or is it a widespread issue? 🎓🧬🍎 - ThreadSky

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ambientologa.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I'm deeply concerned by the inability of many A-level students to follow written instructions. Not even using a checklist to ensure all requirements are met in a task. (E.g. draw a scientific table for experiment results)
Is this just me or is it a widespread issue? 🎓🧬🍎

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drkerryane.bsky.social•9 days ago

Widespread. Most of my time is spent responding to S emails with questions that were answered in the directions for the assignment, in the State Here materials they took a quiz on, in the Schedule of Activities, or in the Syllabus. Often the answer is in all of those places. They don't even try.

drkerryane.bsky.social•9 days ago

Technology and instant communication has stripped students of the necessity to problem-solve in ways probably only Gen-Xers and beyond have experienced. There will be consequences - oops I think we're seeing them already!

ambientologa.bsky.social•9 days ago

I´m a millennial (mostly a xennial) and I have developed those skills. I am not sure if it is a survivor bias, but literacy and attention must have dropped so much that they can't follow a sequence of instructions or can match a list of requirements. What will they do in their future jobs?!?!

gillian-grey.bsky.social•9 days ago

I think it‘s an international problem across all levels.
Secondary school in Germany here, same problems on our levels. 🙄
Wild scribbling and leaving it up to us to find relevant results.

ambientologa.bsky.social•9 days ago

I keep telling them that is not my job, not the examiner´s to find the right answer among their writing and that contradictory answers or plain bad science will detract marks. But for a practical endorsement they need to show skills like "follow written instructions" and OMG how often they skip them

gillian-grey.bsky.social•8 days ago

🤷‍♀️ There are zero points here for a task done the wrong way - and next time they too often do exactly the same.

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