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To what extent do you ask students in this class to engage in the following kinds of writing activities requiring at least a paragraph-length response? Write a report about particular events or experiences (This is what happened in the experiment.... This is how I approached the problem.... These are the events in Nixon's presidency...) Summarize recurrent events or steps in a procedure (This is what happens when water is boiled.... This is how to calculate the area of a triangle.) Analyze a situation, problem, or theme through such strategies as classifying, generalizing, or synthesizing Theorize in a systematic way, including hypotheses and deductions from them Write to persuade others to take specific actions or adopt a specific point of view Make journal entries about what they are learning to keep for later reference Keep response journals reflecting personal reactions to ideas and issues 60 Not used Used occasionally Used frequently 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2 Write stories, poems, or plays 0 1 2 Instructional Contexts The questions in this section are concerned with the kinds of activities that surround any writing that students may do for this class.
To what extent do you use the following instructional techniques when students are asked to write in this class? Ask students to work together to plan, edit, or revise their work. Provide instruction and experience in what to include in summarizing the content being studied. Base writing on inquiry tasks involving immediate, concrete data as the basis for writing. Teach specific strategies for planning, drafting, revising, and organizing written work. Provide models of effective responses for students to read, analyze, and emulate. Provide rubrics that specify what will count in evaluating student work. Organize a "workshop" environment in which students receive individual attention as they engage in learning the content, allowing for cycles of investigation, writing, and revision. Spend class time generating and organizing ideas or information before writing. Clearly specify the specific parts that must be included in a particular kind of writing assignment. Never/ hardly ever 61 Sometimes Frequently Almost always 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3
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