Student Engagement
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on Race and Writing assessment
This Post is based on, “Race and Writing assessment” by Valerie Balestar, more specifically Chapter 4, How Writing Rubrics Fail. It was originally a practicum journal entry that I wrote during my Writing Mentor internship. I Found this portion of the reading interesting, “Because of their powerful influence in instruction, rubrics announce forcefully how we…
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About responding to student writing
The Article “About responding to student writing” by Peter Elbow, Attempts to establish guidelines regarding the critique of student papers. One of the ideas I really liked was, in essence, to ask the student to write about writing. This allows students to introspect and begin the process of metacognition in a safe and healthy way…
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