Category: Assessment
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Engaging Writers with Interactive Genre Samples and Peer Review
The folks at UofT are at it again, and this project looks to be quite useful for writing teachers who are beginning to think about how technology can be useful for more than just web searching: iWRITE is web-enabled courseware developed at the University of Toronto by Margaret Procter and colleagues to support the use…
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Peer Review Publishing
Yesterday, I attended “Peer Review Publishing as a Tool for Teaching Biotechnology: The MMG 445 eJournal Experiment Using Production-Level Freeware” by George Garrity, MSU Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. George will describe a teaching experiment, now in its second year, that he and his colleagues, Terry Marsh, and Scott Harrison, began in MMG 445: Basic Biotechnology.…
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George Hillocks, University of Chicago: Procedural Knowledge and Writing Instruction
Another great talk on campus from a leading scholar in English Education and Composition… Notes from George Hillocks’ talk, “Procedural Knowledge and Writing Instruction” Statement about effectiveness of grammar instruction that Mary mentioned– often cited and often ignored The more time that students spend on grammar leads to a negative correlation in writing scores Teachers…
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Thoughts on MCTE 2006
MCTE 2006 Originally uploaded by hickstro. Last Friday, Alfie Kohn spoke at the MCTE 2006 Conference. There were many points that he made about standards, assessments, and accountability, most of which I agreed with, some of which I would want to take issue. However, there were a few research studies that he mentioned (and that…
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Some thoughts on assessment of new media
David makes an interesting point about blogs and assessment. After noting the old aphorism, “Not everything that is measurable is valuable and not everything that is valuable is measurable,” he adds this: I think the things that are most educationally valuable about blogs and read/write web tools are the hardest to measure. Certainly, the creativity…