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3 Strategies for Formative Assessment and Feedback
Hetal Ascher
Formative assessment refers to assessment used to inform our instruction, and formative feedback refers to the feedback we give to students to help them grow and learn. This blog post contains three strategies for formative assessment and feedback and some … Continue reading
Assessing Writing
Betsy Gilliland
I am collaborating with a Japanese colleague to revise a rating scale for the undergraduate English for Academic Purposes program at her university. She had noticed that even though the program had developed an analytic rubric, some high scoring essays … Continue reading
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Collect, Select, Reflect: Portfolios for L2 Writing Assessment
Betsy Gilliland
Portfolios for assessing students’ writing have been around a long time, but I believe it’s worth another visit, particularly given the tools we now have available online for collecting and sharing our work. What Is a Portfolio? A portfolio is … Continue reading
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Tagged as academic writing, e-portfolios, L2 writing, portfolios, writing assessment
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Trends in SLW: Electronic Forms of Response
Betsy Gilliland
It’s a never-ending issue for anyone who teaches writing: How do I provide my students with enough feedback that they can learn and improve their skills without spending so much time that I can’t do anything else in my life? … Continue reading
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Tagged as academic writing, ELL writing, feedback on student writing, second language writing, SLW, teaching writing, writing assessment
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More on Error Correction
Elena Shvidko
I am a strange language learner. Unlike most people, I like to be corrected directly and explicitly—I learn best this way. I explain this with my perfectionist nature and the high expectations I have for myself; in other words, a … Continue reading
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Student Writing Conferences as Relational Activities
Elena Shvidko
Lately, I have been doing some reading on the interpersonal aspect of student writing conferences. Surprisingly, not much research has been done to look at conference discourse from a relational perspective. Personally, I believe that a writing conference is not … 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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7 Principles of Written Feedback
Elena Shvidko
A few weeks ago, the TESOL Second Language Writing Interest Section had a webinar on written feedback, monitored by Dana Ferris—the author of multiple books and articles on response to student writing. I found the webinar extremely helpful, and I … Continue reading
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