Feedback with a Purpose: A Specifications Graded Course Built Around a Progressive Writing Assignment
Location
Zoom Room 2
Start Date
31-3-2022 1:40 PM
End Date
31-3-2022 2:00 PM
Type of Presentation
Scholarly Work Presentation (15 minutes)
Proposal for Presentation
Writing is effective at driving learning (Arnold et al., 2017). Of the major processes involved in writing—planning, sentence generation, and revision (Hayes & Flower, 1987)—the letter is least practiced. In many cases feedback serves little purpose as students are not expected or required to revise their work (Dysthe, 2011). We report on a course design which uses two tools in order to make feedback and revision matter: a core assignment that builds toward a final goal in progressive steps, and specifications grading (Nilson, 2015), which includes revision as a pathway for improving final grades.
Feedback with a Purpose: A Specifications Graded Course Built Around a Progressive Writing Assignment
Zoom Room 2
Writing is effective at driving learning (Arnold et al., 2017). Of the major processes involved in writing—planning, sentence generation, and revision (Hayes & Flower, 1987)—the letter is least practiced. In many cases feedback serves little purpose as students are not expected or required to revise their work (Dysthe, 2011). We report on a course design which uses two tools in order to make feedback and revision matter: a core assignment that builds toward a final goal in progressive steps, and specifications grading (Nilson, 2015), which includes revision as a pathway for improving final grades.