Data Collection and Assessment Methods
During Phase One, I planned to gather data that would help me understand how an authentic audience effects my students’ feelings towards writing, their image of themselves as writers and the quality of their work.
To measure students’ feelings towards writing and their image of themselves as writers, I will take note of student participation and engagement during lessons and keep a journal to record field notes, observations, comments, and inferences. I will conference with my students individually and in small groups to obtain their feedback regarding the Writing Workshop, instructional methods, challenges they are coming across and successes they are experiencing. I will also provide students with opportunities to share their feedback with me through writing journals, exit slips and student surveys.
Example questions from these instruments will include:
Do you feel like you improved as a writer this week?
Did you enjoy writing this week?
What or who helped you with your writing this week?
What was hard for you?
What did you enjoy about this writing project?
How did you feel about sharing your work? Why?
To measure students’ quality of work, I will analyze student work samples and take note of the length of their writing pieces, the timeliness in which their pieces are completed, the complexity of their sentences, use of descriptive words, word choice, and the ability to implement cohesion and clarity into their writing. Here you will find the rubric that I will be using:
To measure students’ feelings towards writing and their image of themselves as writers, I will take note of student participation and engagement during lessons and keep a journal to record field notes, observations, comments, and inferences. I will conference with my students individually and in small groups to obtain their feedback regarding the Writing Workshop, instructional methods, challenges they are coming across and successes they are experiencing. I will also provide students with opportunities to share their feedback with me through writing journals, exit slips and student surveys.
Example questions from these instruments will include:
Do you feel like you improved as a writer this week?
Did you enjoy writing this week?
What or who helped you with your writing this week?
What was hard for you?
What did you enjoy about this writing project?
How did you feel about sharing your work? Why?
To measure students’ quality of work, I will analyze student work samples and take note of the length of their writing pieces, the timeliness in which their pieces are completed, the complexity of their sentences, use of descriptive words, word choice, and the ability to implement cohesion and clarity into their writing. Here you will find the rubric that I will be using: