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Using Portfolio Reflections To Re-Form Instructional Programs And Build Curriculum, Sarah Robbins, Nancy Brandt, Susan Goering, Jeanette Nassif, Kathleen Wascha
Using Portfolio Reflections To Re-Form Instructional Programs And Build Curriculum, Sarah Robbins, Nancy Brandt, Susan Goering, Jeanette Nassif, Kathleen Wascha
Faculty Articles
An educator who finds merit in both content- and student-centered instruction may find it difficult to develop a classroom learning program with a firm theoretical base drawing on strengths from both perspectives. The implementation of a collaborative portfolio project as an ongoing curriculum reformation is described.
Writing Across Institutional Boundaries: A K-12 And University Collaboration, Rebecca Randolph, Sarah Robbins, Anne Ruggles Gere
Writing Across Institutional Boundaries: A K-12 And University Collaboration, Rebecca Randolph, Sarah Robbins, Anne Ruggles Gere
Faculty Articles
A collaborative reading and writing project between eighth graders and college English education students is discussed. The students corresponded with one another, discussing shared readings.
0590: Maurice Harmon Papers, 1993-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
0590: Maurice Harmon Papers, 1993-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection contains materials related to Maurice Harmon’s work during his time at Marshall University and slightly after. The bulk of the collection consists of works in progress by Harmon and others at Marshall. The works in progress included in this collection are “Sean O'Faolain”, Constable (London, England), 1994 and “Preserving the Word: Descriptive Catalogue of Maurice Harmon’s Library of Anglo-Irish Literature and Criticism” compiled by Barbara R. Brown and edited by Lisle G. Brown, John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture, 1996. These works consist of both proofs and files on floppy disks. Other materials …
Taking Charge: Second Graders Negotiate Ownership Of Their Expressive Writing, Susan Douglas Fleming
Taking Charge: Second Graders Negotiate Ownership Of Their Expressive Writing, Susan Douglas Fleming
Educational Studies Dissertations
This ethnographic study of a single, second grade, public school classroom explores students' ownership of their writing as they negotiate their dual roles of active writer and compliant student.
Writing process advocates such as Calkins (1987), Graves (1983), and Murray (1968, 1985) stress the need for student writers to assume ownership of their work by writing from personal experience and by making the decisions governing direction of the text. This involvement encourages awareness of self as learner and as person, and stimulates cognitive and identity development. Robert Brooke (1991), in a study of college students, points out that the power …
Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms Of Judgment., Peter Elbow
Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms Of Judgment., Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow
Ranking: a one dimensional quantitative judgment--as with grading. A one dimensional quantitative score can never be an accurate reflection of the quality of a multidimensional product (like writing and many other human products).
Evaluation: a multidimensional judgment--using words or providing a multidimensional grid. Judging allows for more trustworthy assessment of writing and many other products.
Liking. This section explores the benefits that come when teachers actually learn to *like* student work--and indeed to like students--and how one can learn to like work even if one judges it to be not very good.