To promote a more rigorous understanding of complex concepts by fundamental students, Dr. Trenary proposes a methodology called “backwards revision” that will help simplify and create growth-oriented assignments. Through simplicity, paradoxically, students are able to approach difficult concepts with a thoroughness not always occurring when students juggle multiple concepts, guidelines, and suggestions. By simplifying assignments to minimum standards for the first draft, students feel comfortable with integral concepts before other requirements are introduced though revision. With each additional draft, students work backwards on papers to add new concepts or to complicate concepts that have already been introduced. Last year, this method was in its initial stages; this presentation will update results and findings from the past year testing this methodology.
