Effective Essay Writing Strategies for Assessments

1. Chapter 6 Written Response Assessment rospenda stiggins chapter 6

2. Things to remember • 1. know your learning targets • 2. Format should fit the target • 3. Students should have writing capacity • 4. Construct high quality exercises • 5. Remember the possibility of bias rospenda stiggins chapter 6

3. Knowledge and Essays • Not very efficient • Look for summaries • Look for specific facts rospenda stiggins chapter 6

4. Reasoning and Essays • Know what reasoning you are looking or • Analytical • Evaluative • Comparison • Make sure essays questions are focused • Make sure problems are new to the students rospenda stiggins chapter 6

5. Performance and Essays • Use essays to see a complex knowledge set • Have they mastered prerequisite knowledge rospenda stiggins chapter 6

6. Essays for Product Development • Have them make the product • Essay should show how students understand the product rospenda stiggins chapter 6

7. How To’sWriting an essay question • Know your standards • Use your apps • Know what you are assessing rospenda stiggins chapter 6

8. How To’sEssay Question • Specify what they should prepare • Think of it as comprehensive evaluations • Identify reasoning patterns • Identify problem solving patterns • Point students to appropriate responses • Anchor papers (mr) rospenda stiggins chapter 6

9. Things to keep in mind • 1. Are you asking for brief responses? • 2. Are you asking for focused responses? • 3. Are the questions written at the lowest reading levels? • 4. Are your scoring criteria obvious? • 5. Does everyone have the same questions? rospenda stiggins chapter 6

10. How to DevelopScoring • 1. Make sure students know what success looks like. • 2. Know what you are looking for rospenda stiggins chapter 6

11. Remember this:Mike R • 1. You write to communicate CLEARLY!!!! • Neat • Complete • Correct • Proof • Examples • Compare/contrast • Summarize • Would another person know what you are writing about? rospenda stiggins chapter 6