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Keith Hamon

How Thumbs Can Facilitate Discussion in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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George Williams peer assessment assessment writing social networking

shared by Keith Hamon on 16 May 11 - No Cached
  • “Okay, show me with your thumbs what your opinion is of the draft in front of you. Thumbs up? Thumbs down?”
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 16 May 11
       
      This is similar to Facebook or Amazon ratings of items, crowd-sourcing assessment.
  • Keith Hamon on 16 May 11
     
    A simple thumbs-up/down technique for peer assessment.
Keith Hamon

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George Williams writing writing assignments plagiarism

shared by Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • In many courses that are not focused on writing skills, instructors might not provide detailed enough instructions on their writing assignments to convey to the student what the instructors’ expectations are
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      This is a key issue for QEP: helping faculty to compose assignments that maximize a student's chances for success.
  • a badly written essay may be the result of the student author not understanding the subject rather than not being a capable writer.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      Even a well-written assignment must be placed within the context of solid learning. If a student does not understand the material, then their chances for errors-and plagiarism-increase dramatically.
  • On the question of how students are incorporating and acknowledging the sources they find through their research, Howard and Jamieson report that the vast majority of the first-year writing student essays studied so far are defined primarily by “patchwriting,” evidence that students are not really understanding or engaging the material they are reading for their essays.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      It seems that students use patchwriting to complete an assignment that they don't understand, simply filling up paper with whatever comes to hand.
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  • I would argue, we need to ensure in every department on campus that we structure our courses and our assignments such that students learn where and how to find authoritative source material and such that students must demonstrate a solid comprehension in writing of the material they’re writing about.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      The issue with plagiarism, then, is that students don't understand their assignment, don't understand the material they are writing about, and don't understand why a writer would incorporate outside material in the first place. We should fix this.
  • Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
     
    So what happens between the end of that two-course sequence and the start of the rest of those students' college careers? If pressed I would offer a hypothesis or two: In many courses that are not focused on writing skills, instructors might not provide detailed enough instructions on their writing assignments to convey to the student what the instructors' expectations are, and A different issue is whether or not the student understands the course material: a badly written essay may be the result of the student author not understanding the subject rather than not being a capable writer.
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