Responding to student work with screencasts
I just finished up an experiment. With the first drafts of my students’ essays, instead of writing comments in Google Docs, I recorded screencasts to off...
Tag: assessment
Group grades: Another way to increase homework
For a long time now, I’ve thought about ways to increase homework completion. The Nightly Text was fairly successful, but still, homework decreased preci...
The Nightly Text as formative assessment
My experiment with the Nightly Text, this unit’s ongoing homework assignment, has been a major success. Reading’s up, homework’s up, and the ...
An experiment on cheating
My students have good morals — most of the time. When it comes to cheating on quizzes, though, their standards are different from mine. I give a weekly q...