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What the Data Reveals – Estelle Rodkoff
An issue revealed from the examination of the middle school student survey data, which somewhat concerns me, can be found in the “Types of Teacher Feedback Provided” statistics. Actually there are a...
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Importance of Small Group Discussion – Rocio Solorzano
One of the most important issues the examination of the survey data on the Interim Assessment revealed was that students surveyed indicated that the tools and activities their teachers rarely used was...
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Feedback Forums
I could devise a research study aimed at increasing positive outcomes for the Interim Assessment and creating more positive student experiences, I would like to pin down the most effective way to...
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Student Writing Experience Survey & Misplaced Feedback – Michele Bethune
Self-reporting is problematic. Anytime an individual takes a survey regarding his or her experience or perceptions of events, bias and delusion are bound to play a role. Factor in adolescence, and...
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Teaching Thesis Statement as a Mathematical Formula – Ruth E. Brown
The student survey data revealed a myriad of interesting and thought-provoking issues. Though interpretations are subjective and the questions the students were asked were broad and limited in scope,...
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Comprehending the Essay Prompt – Veronica Pepe
For an interim assessment, six grade students in the Los Angeles Unified School District were asked to read an excerpt from the article, “A Day in Pompeii – What Nature Destroyed, It also Preserved,”...
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More Writing, Less Grading – Tanya Avelleyra
In the student writing survey, students reported that they have written one to two extended written assignments (four to five paragraphs) in one semester. Providing students with the opportunity to...
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Embedding and Contextualizing Evidence – Patricia Casteneda
Issue: Students did not provide context for the evidence used in body paragraphs. Students used quotations that required for more background information to be given so that the reader could...
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Student Writing Experience Survey: Examining the Data – Saundra Woodruff
678 high school students, most of them in grades 9 and 10, responded to the student writing experience survey. I suspect that the 9th grade responses were actually about the students’ middle school...
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Importance of Timed Writing
In reviewing the student survey data, I noticed that timed on-demand essays were rarely assigned by teachers. According to the survey, timed on-demand essays were assigned only 1.4% of the time in the...
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