beyond best practices: the new frontier of responding to student work
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Beyond Best Practices: The New Frontier of Responding to Student Work
Tialitha Macklin
Background: Creating the Study
• Focus on Assessment with a Focus on Revision
• WSU’s Composition is Portfolio-Based
• Commentary/Response/Assessment
• Conferences as Best Practice
• Technological Advances
• Hypothesis:
• Students and Teachers Would Prefer Audio
Response to Written Response
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Background: Methodology
• Teachers = iAnnotate App with iPad and Adobe
Reader
• Students = Dropbox and Adobe Reader
• Voice Annotation Only
• Control – Written Feedback
• Pre (Survey 1) and Post Surveys (Surveys 2A and
2W)
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2013-2014 Study
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• Participants
• 530 Student Participants (ENGL 100,101,105)
• 11 Teacher Participants
• Surveys
• 1 – 428 Student Participants
• 2A – 225 Student Participants
• 2W – 112 Student Participants
Study Results –
Choice of Response
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Study Results –
Choice of Response
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• Higher Than Average Preference for Audio
(22%) -
• African American Students (56%)
• Hispanic/Latino Students (33%)
• Students with Multiple Ethnic Identifications
(40%)
• Other Ethnic Identifications (33%)
Study Results – Choice of Response
(Audio Preference)
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Study Results –
Choice of Response
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• Lower Than Average Preference for Audio (22%) –
• ESL Students (15%) – Preferred Conferences
• Students Over 26 Years Old (0%) – Preferred
Conferences
• Basic Writing Students (0%) – Preferred Combo,
Conferences, and Margins
• Native American Students (0%) – Preferred
Conferences
Study Results – Choice of Response
(Non-Audio Preference)
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Study Results –
Explanation of Choice
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Conclusions
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• Use Technology Critically
• Audio Response is Not a Panacea
• Doesn’t Work Well for Everyone
• Does Work Well for a Select Population
• Give Students Choice in Response Type?
Future Work
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• Analyze Revision Using These Same
Participants
• Expand Analysis of Student Demographics Who
Do Choose Audio in Future Study
• Analyze How Choice in Response Type
Influences Revision
• Dialogic Response Study in Progress
Beyond Best Practices: The New Frontier of Responding to Student Work
Tialitha Macklin
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