Common Writing Assignment Collaborative Scoring

1. Common Writing AssignmentCollaborative Scoring Science Leadership Retreat May 2, 2009

2. Goals • Be familiar with the CWA scoring rubric and its use of claims, evidence, and reasoning • Use rubric to score student work samples individually and collectively • Provide high quality feedback to improve student writing in science

3. Agenda • Examine CWA rubric with an eye for claims, evidence, and reasoning • Score and discuss student work samples (Grade 5) • Provide and discuss high quality feedback to improve student writing in science

4. CWA Rubric & Scoring(at your table) Step 1: Examine rubric and discuss its use of claims, evidence, and reasoning Step 2: Read student sample 1 and score individually Step 3: Discuss individual scoring and come to consensus at your table Step 4: Post group’s scores on large rubric Step 5: Discuss results as a whole group

5. CWA Rubric & Scoring(at your table) Step 1: Read student samples 2 and 3 Step 2: Score individually and collectively Step 3: Discuss as a whole group

6. Providing High Quality Feedback(at your table) Step 1: Provide feedback to student individually Step 2: Discuss this feedback with your group

7. Types of Feedback Step 3: Discuss as whole group: What type of feedback is effective in promoting student writing in science Step 4: Categorize the type of feedback that were given in Steps 1 and 2 Step 5: Revise feedback

8. Pulling It All Together

9. Common Writing AssignmentCurriculum Examination How do we effectively teach claims, evidence, and reasoning in the context of our curricula?

10. K-8 Participants • Task: Identify specific investigations where you can more effectively articulate/teach claims, evidence, and/or reasoning.

11. 9-12 Participants Task 1: Identify specific investigations where you can more effectively articulate/ teach claims, evidence, reasoning, and/or rebuttal. Task 2: Draft preliminary CWAs using the template provided