You have to give a group of students a project to make people aware of a new law that is to be tabled in the parliament. Which of the following tasks can be given to students to assess their understanding A) Writing articles in the newspaper on this issue. B) Finding the perspective of different social groups and writing a report. C) Meeting the law makers and writing an essay. D) Preparing posters for display at public places.?

Option 4 : Only A, B and D

Social science is a major category of the academic discipline concerned with society but it should be added that social science reveals the relationship among individuals and their outlook on society.

• The cognitive domain is the most central informal education. Cognitive objectives relate to the processing of information by the student. These objectives specify what students will be able to do intellectually as a result of instruction. The cognitive domain may be presented in the following hierarchical order :

  • Knowledge
  • Understanding or Comprehension
  • Application
  • Analysis
  • Synthesis
  • Evaluation

• ​ Understanding means recalling and recognizing the learned content. Here the learner could understand and explain what he learned in the classroom as his own language. Identifying relations, classification of objects, explanations, comparisons, translation, etc are the specification of this level.
• Following tasks can be given to students to assess student's understanding:- 
  •  Writing articles in the newspaper on this issue.
  •  Finding the perspective of different social groups and writing a report.
  • Preparing posters for display at public places.

These all tasks assess the understanding level of the students as all these tasks required a complete understanding of the work so that they can explain or write the content.

Thus, it is concluded that Only A, B, and D options are correct.