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Teaching and learning tricky topics
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2.3 Planning an effective needs analysis activity

When conducting a students’ needs analysis in order to identify their (mis)understandings it is useful to consider how you are going to:

  1. structure an activity to best capture students’ thoughts
  2. record the students’ thoughts and understanding
  3. analyse those thoughts.