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Tag Archives: self-assessment
Directed Self‐Placement for Second Language Writers
Elena Shvidko
Crusan’s (2011) article “The Promise of Directed Self-Placement for Second Language Writers” underscores the advantages of directed self-placement (DSP) methods over so-called “classic” placement approaches, which, as Crusan rightly noted, assume financial expenses and political decisions, and which may not … Continue reading
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4 Ways to Help ELLs Self-Assess Their Writing
Elena Shvidko
As part of my TESOL MA program, I had to take a language testing class. One of the hardest tasks of the course was—believe it or not—working in a group with other graduate students to create a writing test. Some … Continue reading
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Deferred Self-Correction
Rob Sheppard
Today I’m going to discuss a technique that I’m calling deferred self-correction (an entirely forlackofabetterword term; don’t google it; four hits; other suggestions welcome). I’ve been using this technique for a long time but never really gave it much thought … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, ESL writing, evergreen, Robert Sheppard, self-assessment, teaching writing, writing assessment
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Options in Classroom Self-Assessment
Rob Sheppard
Why Self-Assessment? I’ll be honest: It took me a while to come around to the notion of self-assessment. All I could picture was my sneeringly too-cool high-school self giving my apathetically underachieving high school self A+ after unearned A+.
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Tagged as adult education, assessment, portfolios, rubrics, self-assessment, testing
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