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Nebraska Department of Education, 2016
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Practice Guide, "Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively," offers educators three specific, evidence-based recommendations that address the challenges of teaching students in grades 6-12 to write effectively. This summary focuses on the third of the three recommendations: Use assessments of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Writing Strategies
Beck, Sarah – Teachers College Press, 2018
The think-aloud approach to classroom writing assessment is designed to expand teachers' perspectives on adolescent students as writers and help them integrate instruction and assessment in a timely way. Emphasizing learning over evaluation, it is especially well-suited to revealing students' strengths and helping them overcome common challenges…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Skill Analysis, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation
Tuttle, Harry Grover – Eye on Education, 2010
Use formative assessment to dramatically improve your students' writing. In "Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment", educator and international speaker Harry G. Tuttle shows you how to guide middle and high school students through the prewriting, writing, and revision processes using formative assessment techniques that work.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Sharifi, Mohsen; McCombs, Gary B.; Fraser, Linda Lussy; McCabe, Robert K. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2009
The authors describe a graduate capstone accounting class as a basis for building communication skills desired by both accounting practitioners and accounting faculty. An academic service-learning (ASL) component is included. Adopted as a required class for a master of science degree in accounting at two universities, this course supports…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Accounting, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Defeyter, Margaret Anne; McPartlin, Pamela Louise – Psychology Teaching Review, 2007
The aim of the study was to look at the effectiveness of combining a variety of teaching and learning methods in an attempt to facilitate students' understanding of assessment criteria. Fifty-three psychology students were asked to complete the mismatch exercise (Norton et al., 2002), and a booklet entitled "Your Assignment results and how to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Criteria
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Chizmar, John F.; Ostrosky, Anthony L – Journal of Economic Education, 1998
Suggests that using the one-minute paper to teach an introductory economics course increases economic knowledge regardless of student ability level and instructor characteristics. The one-minute paper is a form of feedback where the students answer a few basic questions about the lesson at the end of the class. (MJP)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Economics, Economics Education, Feedback