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WV Writes: Improving Student Writing

WV Writes: Improving Student Writing. Stacey Murrell RLA Acuity and WV Writes Coordinator Career and Technical Education Bridgeport, WV October 27, 2011. What is WV Writes?.

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WV Writes: Improving Student Writing

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  1. WV Writes:Improving Student Writing Stacey Murrell RLA Acuity and WV Writes Coordinator Career and Technical Education Bridgeport, WV October 27, 2011

  2. What is WV Writes? • WV Writes is a customized, web-based online writing program that provides feedback, scoring and reporting and is designed to assess students’ writing progress over the course of the school year.

  3. WV Writes features: • Ability to create writing prompts: narrative, descriptive, informative, and persuasive • 34 passages and prompts from the 2008 WESTEST 2 Online Writing Field Test • 162 grade-level shelf prompts • Unlimited practice sessions • Instant scoring and student feedback based on the WV writing rubric

  4. Using WV Writes Data to Facilitate Writing

  5. Sample School 2010-2011 WV Writes Proficiency Summary262 Essays Submitted

  6. Five analytic traits proficiency range for Sample School WESTEST 2 Practice Prompts

  7. WV Students wrote- • 491,916 essays in WV Writes in 2010-2011 school year!!

  8. School A: 9th GradeAnalytic Trait Averages

  9. School B: 9th GradeAnalytic Trait Averages

  10. School A and B: 9th GradeWESTEST 2 Online Writing

  11. School A: 10th GradeAnalytic Trait Averages

  12. School B: 10th GradeAnalytic Trait Averages

  13. School A and B: 10th GradeWESTEST 2 Online Writing

  14. School A: 11th GradeAnalytic Trait Averages

  15. School B: 11th GradeAnalytic Trait averages

  16. School A and B: 11th GradeWESTEST 2 Online Writing

  17. WESTEST 2 Writing: At or Above Mastery Level

  18. What does a teacher see?

  19. Teacher can: • Access and print writing rubrics • Create classes and add students to classes • Create writing prompts • Assign writing prompts • Monitor/adjust student writing scores • Document student progress daily, weekly, monthly, yearly • View/print reports Writingprompt-the text, images, and/or charts that students read and process prior to writing a document or essay

  20. WV Writing Rubrics

  21. Create/Manage Classes

  22. Create a New Assessment

  23. Create a New Assignment

  24. Monitor/Adjust Essay Scores

  25. Reports

  26. Group Status Report

  27. Group Writing List Report

  28. What does a student see?

  29. Students can: • View their homepage • View any messages/comments • Compose essays • Bookmark • Draft print • Score essay with feedback • Print score, feedback, and essay

  30. https://student.wvwrites.com

  31. View Messages/Comments

  32. Compose Essay

  33. Bookmark

  34. View Writing Rubric

  35. View Essay and Draft Print

  36. View Teacher Comments

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