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Tag: peer feedback
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We have had a small problem recently with some students trolling the Peer Feedback system. If you are a teacher, you will know well that student empowerment can come at the cost of students being empowered to do the things they want and not the things you want. 95% of these inappropriate comments got caught by our filters and…
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I have been experimenting this morning running Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) over students’ peer feedback responses. So far, all I’ve done is analyse the last 50,000 responses in aggregate, and only on a few dimensions. Here is what I found: The ‘personal’ and ‘formal’ columns are comparison averages generated by the system. I assume…
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My thanks to Beth Evans, of The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough for this idea. Beth wrote “I did screen shot one question that came up whilst I was testing a quiz I had written and used it as a plenary to the previous* lesson as part of the critera setting for the next task.” *…
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I would like to share with you the original inspiration for our current programme of peer-written formative feedback. Back in the Autumn Term, I ran a small-scale competition to test the concept. To my surprise, all the winners came from The Appleton School in Benfleet. Perhaps it was due to the
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It’s coming up to lunchtime on the first day of our peer feedback experiment, and I’m incredibly excited at how well it is going. We have had about 1000 peer-written statements in so far and I wanted to share some of the best of them with you. If the authors of these are your students,…
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