Hailey College of Banking and Finance

Auditing
Topic : Role of assignments in professional studies

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 Role of Assignments in
Professional Studies

Assignment, refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed

mostly outside of class, and derives its name from the fact that most students do
the majority of such work at home. Common assignments may include a quantity
or period of reading to be performed, writing or typing to be completed, problems
to be solved, a project to be built, or other skills to be practiced.

Main Role, Objectives and Reasons for Assignments

The basic role and objectives of assigning a work to students are the same as
schooling in general: To increase the knowledge and improve the abilities and
skills of the students. Assignment may be designed to reinforce what students have
already learned, prepare them for upcoming (or complex or difficult) lessons ,
courses or books, extend what they know by having them apply it to new
situations, or to integrate their abilities by applying many different skills to a single
task.

Amount of Assignment Required

A review of over 60 research studies showed that, within limits, there is a positive
correlation between the amount of Assignment done and student achievement. The
research synthesis also showed that too many Assignments could be extremely
counterproductive, causing students to "burn out".

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 Assignment Resources

Internet Assignment resources

There are many Assignments -related

resources available on the World Wide Web.
There are web-sites dedicated to
communicating about Assignments, for
teachers to post assignments on-line for
students, and to keep parents informed.

Many libraries provide on-line

resources which present subjects
specifically for students who are
looking for something to write about. And there are archives of ready-made
assignments, including handouts, which teachers can use to provide assignment to
their students. Many other websites are used for research, especially search
engines, such as Google, encyclopedias and wikipedia.

Apart from above given resources there are hundreds of websites who are
providing Assignment help at nominal rates. Such websites claim to help students
understand concepts.

Some parents choose to monitor their students' usage of the internet, as some of the
sites may be found deceptive or inappropriate by academic institutions. Also,
Internet resources offer students a wealth of opportunity for plagiarism.

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 Teaching and Assignment effectiveness
Student learning improves when assignment serves a clear purpose and is matched
to both the skills of each individual student and to the current topics being taught in
class. Feedback improves the effectiveness of assignment, especially when given
in a timely manner (within 24 hours). Effective feedback improves student learning
by correcting misunderstanding, validating process, and highlighting errors in
thinking. Embedded comments provide much better feedback than a mere grade at
the top of the paper. Assignment must be concentrated to be effective: mastering
takes days or weeks of practice. Fifty-percent mastery may be achieved after 4
practice sessions, but it takes 28 practice sessions to achieve approximately the
eighty-percent mastery level.

Another way teachers can be more effective is by alerting parents to their students'
Assignment, giving parents a chance to become familiar with the material and their
child's progress. This also encourages parents to become involved in the
assignment process. Messages tend to get lost in transit or even altered when using
"pupil post" and therefore direct communication is much more effective and
prevents frustration all around. Methods available for directly reporting
assignments include the phone, email, and centralized web-pages.

Critical reading of assignments leads to skills in other types of reading and

writing. If you get good at figuring out what the real goals of assignments are, you
are going to be better at understanding the goals of all of your classes and fields of
study.

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Assignments have the following effects on the student n this is the development in
a student after making an effective assignment:

 Effective Communication

 Self Directed and Lifelong Learning

 Ethical Reasoning

 Individuals, Communities and Cultures

 Critical Thought and Knowledge Acquisition

 Competence

Criticism
There is research supporting the idea that assignment is of little educational value,
and that for young children (i.e., under 13) it may have a negative effect on
learning but not on professional studies. Assignment is more effective and gives
positive effect in professional studies.

Bibliography:

"The Myth About Homework", Claudia Wallis, Time Magazine, Aug. 29, 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_%28education%29

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