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The document provides instructions for an assignment asking students to analyze a research paper and identify aspects of academic writing such as recommendations. Students are asked to photocopy pages of the research paper onto larger paper, labeling any identified aspects. The included excerpt from a research paper analyzes the impact of teachers developing assessment for learning strategies on student achievement. It describes a study where 24 teachers worked to design formative assessment approaches over 6 months before implementing them, and effect sizes were calculated by comparing results to previous student cohorts or parallel classes.
The document provides instructions for an assignment asking students to analyze a research paper and identify aspects of academic writing such as recommendations. Students are asked to photocopy pages of the research paper onto larger paper, labeling any identified aspects. The included excerpt from a research paper analyzes the impact of teachers developing assessment for learning strategies on student achievement. It describes a study where 24 teachers worked to design formative assessment approaches over 6 months before implementing them, and effect sizes were calculated by comparing results to previous student cohorts or parallel classes.
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EDU5781 Writing Research Papers and Reports
Assignment To be handed in by Monday 5th February 2007
Choose a journal article / research paper preferably related to your Master’s
specialization and, bearing in mind the various aspects of academic writing that we have looked at during our sessions, IDENTIFY and LABEL as many of these aspects as you can in the article.
For example, are there recommendations in this paper? What sort are they? Recommendations for policy? For practice?
Please photocopy the pages of the journal article onto a larger sized paper. You may wish to photocopy two facing pages at a time because an open journal is approximately A4 size and then photocopy this onto A3 paper, more or less as follows:
Teachers developing assessment for
learning: impact on student achievement
Dylan Wiliam1*, Clare Lee2, Christine Harrison3 & Paul Black3
1Educational Testing Service, NJ, USA; 2Warwickshire County Council,
UK; 3King’s College London, UK
While it is generally acknowledged that increased use of formative
assessment (or assessment for learning) leads to higher quality learning, it is often claimed that the pressure in schools to improve the results achieved by students in externally-set tests and examinations precludes its use. This paper reports on the achievement of secondary school students who worked in classrooms where teachers made time to develop formative assessment strategies.
A total of 24 teachers (2 science and 2 mathematics teachers, in each of
six schools in two LEAs) were supported over a six-month period in Aim of exploring and planning their approach to formative assessment, and study then, beginning in September 1999, the teachers put these plans into action with selected classes. In order to compute effect sizes, a measure of prior attainment and at least one comparison group was established for each class (typically either an equivalent class taught in the previous year by the same teacher, or a parallel class taught by another teacher). The mean effect size in favour of the intervention was 0.32.
