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Renovating Assessment Practices
Lisa MillerFebruary, 2013
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Or…
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This Time It’s All About Me!
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The Foundation
Does shifting to an electronic submission format for written assignments decrease my marking load and thus increase my job satisfaction ?
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The Building Blocks
“…[W]e teach who we are”…but at what price?
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Redesigning My Approach
• electronic submissions via email (Word)o track changesomemo function
• storing, processing, and returning files o subfolders for each gradeo red-flag vs. check marko FirstnameAssignmentname.docx
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Cracks in the Foundation?
• red vs. green• MS Word vs. Open Office
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Reframing My Assessment Practice
In general, do my students read the comments I put on their papers?
• 90% of my grade 12s and 96% of grade 11s “usually” or “always” do this
• my dilemma: successful student revisions require very specific written feedback…
• but very specific written feedback takes a great deal of time, negating my attempts to decrease my work load
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Will students find the responses I givevia “track changes” and the “memo” function in Word as helpful as my handwritten version?
• 67% of my grade 12s found the electronic feedback more helpful than the handwritten feedback
• 57% of my grade 11s found this to be the case
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Will the number of students submitting assignments electronically increase over the semester?
• 74% of my 12s thought they would try electronic submission
• 91% actually did it…
• 58% of my 11s thought they would try electronic submission
• 79% actually did it…
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The Inspection
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Program Capacities…
Being a Strategic Teacher
The goal: • to achieve a better balance between my professional
and private life
The tool:• redesigning my assessment practice in a way that
allowed me to retain the frequency and depth of my responses
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Being a Creative and Adaptive Educator
The Challenge:• to develop a valid method of assessment more likely to
appeal to today’s tech-savvy students
The Result:• a strategy that both satisfies my personal expectations
regarding quality assessment and makes me a more efficient marker
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Being a Reflexive Educator
The Question:• Can I still be an effective English teacher if I alter the
way in which I assess my students’ writing?
The Answer:• Yes!
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Form + Function = Balance