Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Topic/Feedback

This page summarises common feedback for the topic development exercise.

Title and sub-title

 * 1) Title and sub-title should match the exact wording and casing listed in the book table of contents
 * 2) Don't display user name – authorship is as per the page's editing history (likely to have multiple authors)

Headings

 * 1) The best structures were typically 2-levels with 3 to 6 main body top-level headings between the Overview and Conclusion and, for longer sections, 3 to 6 sub-headings
 * 2) The best structures exhibited close alignment between the sub-title question(s), focus questions, and top-level headings
 * 3) Stronger topic development proposals tended to use more descriptives headings, however weren't complicated (e.g., a reader shouldn't have to vertically scroll on a desktop/laptop computer to read the table of contents)
 * 4) Headings should use sentence casing (i.e., lower-case except for the first letter and proper nouns)

Overview

 * 1) The best topic developments included a scenario, an image, key points, and well-honed focus questions
 * 2) Start the overview with a scenario or case study in a feature box with an image to help attract reader interest

Key points

 * 1) The best submissions provided key points with citations that covered key psychological theory and research
 * 2) Some topic development proposals had limited development of key points, indicating little understanding of the topic
 * 3) The Conclusion (the most important section) was often underdeveloped
 * 4) When a section has sub-sections, provide an introductory paragraph before the first sub-heading

Figure

 * 1) Almost all topic developments included a relevant image
 * 2) Many figure captions could be improved by making clearer connection to key points in the main text
 * 3) Cite each figure at least once

Learning feature

 * 1) The best topic developments used at least one learning feature out of:
 * 2) embedded interwiki links (all chapters should do this)
 * 3) examples/case studies (often more examples would improve the chapter)
 * 4) images
 * 5) quiz questions (avoid putting these in a stand-alone section – instead, embed each question(s) within the relevant section

Resources

 * 1) See also
 * 2) The best topic developments provided interwiki links to at least one Wikipedia and at least one Wikiversity page, using bullet points, with additional information in brackets after the source - e.g., (Wikipedia) or (Book chapter, 2022)
 * 3) External links
 * 4) Include source and possibly additional information in brackets after the link - e.g., (YouTube, 12 mins)
 * 5) Should be relevant to an international audience

User page

 * 1) Generally created and used effectively, including a self-introduction and link to book chapter
 * 2) Consider cross-linking with your professional online profile(s)

Social contribution

 * 1) Only links to direct evidence of the contributions are counted for marking purposes
 * 2) For a Wikiversity edit, view the page history, select the version of the page before and after your contributions, click "compare selected revisions", and then use this website address as a direct link to evidence for listing on your user page. For more info, see the book chapter author guidelines