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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

One of the district’s top technology initiatives : Fifth and eighth grade students partnered on a peer-reviewed argument writing assigment. After a couple days of review, the eighth grade students connected individually with the fifth grade students via Google.hangout, and they used their Chromebooks.

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Peer Review Essay Disabilities Schools 182

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

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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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Feedback Peer Review Critical Thinking Assignments 134

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JULY 25, 2023

And his fascination with the form led him to write a book about the genre, “ Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? ” Professors often spend years writing a paper or a book, he adds, and then it takes years or months to get published, and then read by very few people. And I've done this myself.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

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MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . That’s quite an advantage since copied materials often come from peer-reviewed articles. Obsolete design isn’t just bad-looking, it’s inconvenient.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

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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. The fourth and final reason for peer feedback is specific to writing classes. When students write knowing a classmate will review it, they reject the mindset that they are writing for the teacher.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Critical Thinking 105

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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. Under the UDL framework, we consider student variability and diversity as the norm, and the burden of adaptation is placed on the curriculum.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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APRIL 17, 2017

Revision Assistant , part of the Turnitin family, is a comprehensive virtual writing assistant for students that allows them to digitally edit and rewrite documents for any class. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 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. A fun writing project is a Round Robin story where a group of students collaborate to write a story. That’s fine, too. Round Robin Story.

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Writing Students Peer Review Essay 90

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For example, instead of traditional essays, instructors might assign reflective portfolios, oral presentations, or collaborative projects that require students to engage deeply with the material and demonstrate their understanding in ways that go beyond what AI can produce.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

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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. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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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. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98

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JULY 11, 2018

Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” And that was just on the first page.

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Peer Review Education Essay Attention 122

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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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Essay Peer Review Art History 218