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CPR™: The Innovative Writing & Peer Review Tool by Dr. Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt

Learn about CPR™, a web-based writing and peer assessment tool for students to enhance their writing skills, critical thinking, and creativity in various courses. Discover the history and functionality of CPR™ and how it benefits both students and instructors.

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CPR™: The Innovative Writing & Peer Review Tool by Dr. Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt

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  1. Calibrated Peer Review(CPRTM) What’s it all about? by Dr. Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt CPR Administrator, TAMU

  2. WHAT IS CPR™? • A Web-based instructional writing and peer assessing tool • Originated in the Molecular Science Project, an NSF-sponsored chemistry reform project (DUE 95-55605) at UCLA • Enables students to learn by writing about significant topics in a course FREE

  3. Why is writing important? Evaluation Judgment: the ability to make decisions and support views; requires understanding of values Combination of information to form a unique product; requires creativity and originality Synthesis Identification of component parts; determination of arrangement, logic, semantics Analysis Use of information to solve problems; transfer of abstract or theoretical ideas to practical situations. Application Identification of connections and relationships Interpretation Restatement in your own words; paraphrase; summary Translation Verbatim information; memorization with no evidence of understanding Recall Bloom’s Taxonomy – categorizing level of abstraction of questions

  4. HISTORY AT TAMUcpr.tamu.edu • 2002 - CPRTM was introduced to TAMU by Larry Peck and myself after Chemical Education workshop demo. • 2003 - To avoid FERPA issues & because of WALS NSF grant thru CTE, CPRTM was housed on a secure TAMU server. • 2003 - I volunteered to be the CPRTM administrator because of experience. WALS = Writing for Assessment and Learning in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences

  5. HOW DOES IT WORK? • The students write an assignment. • They pass a calibration step, where they learn to recognize and rank 3 essays of different quality on the same topic. • The students, NOT the instructor, critique 3 of their peers and their own work on-line. • Instructors can change grades afterwards.

  6. INTRO • A CPR assignment consists of three stages:     Stage 1: Text Entry Stage    Stage 2: Calibration and Review Stage    Stage 3: Results Stage • Only one stage can be accessed at any time.

  7. STAGE 1: Text Entry Stage The student will: • explore the assignment source material made available by the instructor:web sites, articles, text books, pictures, movies, animations, etc. • submit a text based on the material, guiding questions & writing prompt

  8. STAGE 2:Calibration and Review Stage The student will: • evaluate three example texts, called calibration essays. These calibrations will develop their ability to effectively review the work of their peers, • evaluate the work of three peers anonymously, and • evaluate their own work.

  9. Stage 3: Results Stage For the student: • The detailed assignment results are posted. For the instructor: • A problems list is generated. • All data can be downloaded. • Times can be altered for students that miss deadlines.

  10. PresentersTeaching With Technology Conference (2/23/05) • Cecilia Hawkins, English • ENGL 301 Technical Writing • Cindy Raisor, English • PHYS 218 Mechanics • ENGL 301 Technical Writing • Vicky Salin, Agricultural Economics • AGEC 431 Cases in AGBUS Finance • AGEC 630 Financial Analysis for AGBUS Firms • Ed Swanson, Accounting • ACCT 651 Development of Accounting Thought

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