FYC & PTC

Benefits

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Student Benefits:

  • Reduces confusion for students by providing focused feedback that constructively targets assignment learning outcomes
  • Encourages vital meta-cognitive work in the self review stage of drafting
  • Allows students to productively engage with not only their own writing, but also the writing of their peers
  • Creates community by encouraging collaboration among students around writing

Faculty Benefits:

  • Enables precise matching of feedback to specific learning outcomes
  • Visualizes insights into student learning that can be rapidly addressed
  • Provides insights into the impacts of instructors’ individual pedagogical practices, which is particularly important for new instructors and instructors new to the subject matter
  • Allows more engagement with student work, while saving time in the feedback process

Administrative Benefits:

  • Illuminates potential gaps in instructional approach
  • Reports insights into student learning on a just-in-time basis
  • Yields insights into whether assignments are successfully achieving learning outcomes
  • Reveals areas where instructional weaknesses may need to be addressed

Assessment Benefits:

  • Measures specific cognitive, planning, and collaborative domains of writing through specific task-based outcomes
  • Aligns feedback directly with learning outcomes
  • Makes formative and summative assessment clearer for students and faculty
  • Provides an administrative view across sections
  • Enables completion of institutional assessment and programmatic assessment through rigorous research and analysis

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