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Tag: peer feedback
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This guest post is by Ruth Greener, Teaching, Learning and Assessment Coordinator and Teacher of English at St. Andrews School, Green Valley Campus, Thailand. When I got the email from Yacapaca, with details and links for the Christmas Story competition, I was keen to try it out. Students at my very sporty school LOVE games…
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I’ve just picked up a post on LinkedIn (here) that labelled the the above sheet as “Developing reflective learners”. Really??? To save your eyesight, here are the two student comments from the bottom of the sheet: I think that I did well on talking about the formation of ox-bow lakes and identifying river processes. However,…
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When students misspell a common word, what is driving the error? I analysed 35,000 Peer Feedback entries in which the student had intended to write “wrong” and found 1614 instances of misspellings – about 5% of the total. Of the misspellings, 62% entered “rong”, a phonetic error 27% entered “worng”, a typographical error. My…
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Sometimes kids get hold of the wrong end of the stick en masse. A great example is copyright – the right to copy. A quick sampling of students’ peer feedback statements reveals that approx. 50% of statements that mention copyright see it as some kind of a crime. Here’s a quick sampler of the 20+…
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My thanks to new member Yasmin Sheikh of Whitfield School in Barnet for asking why we show each question for 10 seconds before displaying the options. I realised that although we have worked like stink build opportunities for differentiation into every point of the Yacapaca process, I have never really explained them. Here, then is chapter and verse. Implicit…
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