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JUNE 10, 2025

For instance, there’s a corner of TikTok reserved for tech influencers who rack up thousands of views and likes teaching students how to most effectively use AI programs to generate their essays, including step-by-step instructions on bypassing AI detectors. It’s not especially high-tech or even particularly ingenious.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. I then had each review work by three other students according to a feedback rubric I created; I moderated the process throughout. Advice for effective peer review.

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JULY 25, 2023

Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. If it's a podcast that involves interviews, it gives them interview skills, and it helps them build networks. So firstly it forces you to actually say the same thing in much fewer words. And that's the problem.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 110

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JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Persisting through difficulty to embrace challenges, collaborating with colleagues and leveraging our SEL skills can create a space ripe for innovation.

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MARCH 13, 2019

If they’re short answer or essay — the preferred way to check understanding — grading takes a long time. Since a student learns writing skills not to satisfy a teacher but to benefit their future life goals, this approach is much more beneficial. Students will face peer feedback often when they leave school.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 96

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JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the sudden decision by many colleges to make submitting such scores optional. They also simply may not work.

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Fairness Counselling Testing Disabilities 217

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When developing our institution’s QEP, we had to ensure our assessments aligned with two main categories: formative , which describes tasks or skills that are in process or being formed, and summative , which evaluates the sum total of skills or comprehension achieved. Carless, D., & Winstone, N. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J.

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

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APRIL 17, 2017

Our literacy coach and English teacher, Heidi Crocker, found a product from Turnitin – Revision Assistant – that used a powerful technology to assess writing and would turn the data it uncovered into feedback that students could apply to their essays immediately. We decided to give it a try. led to higher scores.

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Testing Essay English Writing 75

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When developing our institution’s QEP, we had to ensure our assessments aligned with two main categories: formative , which describes tasks or skills that are in process or being formed, and summative , which evaluates the sum total of skills or comprehension achieved. Carless, D., & Winstone, N. London, UK: Routledge. Gaynor, J.

Fairness 111

Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Challenges: Engagement and Skill Development However, AI’s efficacy hinges on student self-regulation, a persistent challenge where developmental courses predominate (Zimmerman, 2002). Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 90

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Challenges: Engagement and Skill Development However, AI’s efficacy hinges on student self-regulation, a persistent challenge where developmental courses predominate (Zimmerman, 2002). Faculty used ChatGPT as a virtual tutor, assigning students to draft essays and refine them with AI feedback before submission.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 84

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

When students share organic ideas and peer review projects, they build authentic knowledge that everyone takes ownership in, but the saying is easier than the doing. This should follow the well-accepted five-paragraph essay used in many elementary classrooms. Every activity in your classroom includes how-to questions.

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Students Writing Peer Review Essay 81

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Peer review. Conduct a peer review and/or class discussion of AI writing.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

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JANUARY 6, 2025

A new peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Public Humanities , aims to strengthen the connections between university-based humanities work and the wider world, creating a space for academics and practitioners to share what they do and how they do it. A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. and elsewhere.

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