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Summit IntelliMetric

MY Access!®

A Web-delivered AssessmentAnd

Instructional Writing Tool

Lee, Wei-JiinSummit IntelliMetric

GLoCALL 2007Vietnam

2 – 4 November 2007 (Hanoi University, Hanoi)5 – 7 November 2007 (SEAMEO RETRAC, HCMC)


Outline1. Introduction

2. MY Access!®

- Overview

- Benefits To … Students & Educators

- Interactive of Teacher & Student

3. Let’s go live …..

- Teacher’s view

- Student’s view


“Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.” ~ Syrene Forsman

For students to develop into “real” writers, they must develop a repertoire of strategies and have the confidence to make choices regarding genre, content, structure, organization, and style. ~ Mark Wiley

Writing is a Recursive Process: "Just write and keep writing...It will probably come in waves. After a flurry, stop and take a brief rest. But don't stop too long. Don't think about what you are writing or what you have written or else you will overload the circuit again“~ Peter Elbow


Writing is Fundamental for Learning …yet

• Most educators have huge class loads nowadays

• Writing assignments are a burden on time• Hours are spent on grading papers

• Class load hinders the ability to provide quick feedback

• Fewer writing assignments are assigned to students (get to the place they need to be)


Overview of MY Access!®

• a web-delivered, portfolio based English writing instructional tool based on the IntelliMetric® automated essay scoring engine

• is proven tool that to dramatically improve students’ basic writing skills in as few as six weeks

• an award-winning program diagnoses and assesses the writing ability of students from upper primary to secondary and at the college level

• provides an interactive writing environment and more opportunity for students to practice their writing skills


• students’ work is stored in an online portfolio, they can do their assignments anywhere, anytime they have access to a computer and the Internet gaining unlimited opportunity to practice writing

• similarly, educator / teacher can view and monitor individual student’s portfolio to provide (one-to-one instruction)

• allows educator ….. to conduct early diagnosis, delivers writing assignment more frequently, monitors writing performance of students

Overview of MY Access!®….. cont


1. Holistic (Overall) and Analytical (Domain) scores and targeted feedback in the areas of:-

Focus & Meaning - Cohesiveness and consistency in purpose and main idea Content & Development – Content breadth, support of theme, elaboration Organization – Logical sequence of ideas and discourse Language, Use & Style – Word/sentence complexity and variety, tone/voice Mechanics & Convention - Conformance to conventions of English Language

2. Guided Feedbacks MY-Tutor – Prescriptive feedback that motivates students to write, edit and learn MY-Editor – more than a Grammar Checker Teacher embedded and general comments

MY Access!® provides…


MY Access!® Benefits To….. Students

• increase the frequency of their writing opportunity anywhere, anytime

• develop a range of strategies in the writing process prewriting, drafting, organizing and revising • receive the instructional feedback on scoring for effective writing

• access to a Writer’s Guide with over 70 developmental activities that help students to improve their writing in all 5 domains

• provide an online portfolio for students to review the feedbacks, and then revise their essays on a 24/7 basis

• write different topic types (Informative, Narrative, Persuasive, Literary)


MY Access!® Benefits To….. Educators

• spend less time reading, grading and correcting students’ papers

• gain additional time for curriculum planning and focus on teaching

• (one-on-one instruction) to direct students to read, write essay responses and receive scores for independent writing tasks

• the robust reporting features within MY Access! produces up-to-the-minute student performance data, enabling teachers to make timely, data-driven decisions for successful, differentiated instruction


Teacher

Login with username &

password

Student

Setup Class

1. Class general info

2. Create students

3. Create assignments

View Students’ Portfolio

Give comments (embedded / general)

or provide human scores

Revise essay according to the diagnostic instruction or teacher’s comment

Choose an assignment & start writing

Utilizes system provided writing tools in their

writing process

Essay completed. Submit for computer scoring

Receive immediate diagnostic feedback and

scores

Login with username & password

MY Access!®

Interactive of Teacher & Student

UnlimitedRevision

Students’ Portfolio


MY Access!®

Let’s Go Live……. www.myaccess.com


For more information:

www.vantagelearning.com

email : [email protected]

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