A3 — Transfer

Take the model you built understanding of earlier in the course and apply it somewhere it was never shown to you, then defend the result.

Due: 28 May 2027 · Weight: 30%

The brief#

Take something you’ve already convinced an instrument you understand, and use it somewhere that instrument never looked.

Passing a test inside the conditions it was designed for is the weakest possible evidence of understanding — it’s exactly what a memorised answer would also produce. This assessment asks you to carry a model or skill from A1 or A2 into a genuinely new case and show it still does work there. Then, looking back, say what your earlier results actually established and what they didn’t: an instrument that never left its original domain can’t have ruled out rehearsal, however convincing it looked at the time.

This is the course’s final and most direct answer to Week 12’s unresolved case — an argument memorised well enough to survive every rung. Transfer to an unrehearsed domain is the one thing memorisation alone struggles to fake.

What you submit#

An application of your model to the new case, written so a reader with no access to your earlier submissions can follow and evaluate it, plus a short retrospective naming exactly what A1 and A2 could and couldn’t have shown about whether you understood the material, versus could reproduce it.