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Eli Review is a set of tools that help instructors create highly structured assignments and peer review activities. With Eli Review students can practice with hard course concept and/or hard ways of writing. They also practice providing feedback and benefit from receiving feedback from peers.
Eli Review empowers teachers to coach students in feedback and revision and promotes critical thinking and better writing, all in one simple application.
Eli Review is a set of tools that help instructors create highly structured assignments and peer review activities. With Eli Review students can practice with hard course concept and/or hard ways of writing. They also practice providing feedback and benefit from receiving feedback from peers.
Jan 6, 2022 · Eli Review empowers teachers to coach students in feedback and revision and promotes critical thinking and better writing. New results from the University of California Santa Barbara’s Access to Practice (AtP) research group show that giving and receiving feedback on writing to…
- Tasks Focused on Threshold Concepts
- Relevant Exam Question Performance
- Instructor Feedback
- Lessons Learned
- Specific Criteria, A Little Writing, A Little Review, Big Impact
- About Citral
- About The Stemwrite Institute
- Additional Resources
To develop the prompts, the faculty members first identified two threshold concepts—concepts that learners must conceptually grasp to progress with their learning in the discipline, and concepts that are often difficult for students. They chose the Central Dogma of molecular biology and meioisis. Using Eli Review, they then created highly structure...
The threshold concepts from the writing prompts were also assessed by four exam questions. Overall, there is a positive relationship between student performance on the final exam and their participation in the Write-Learn activities. The relationship continues to be positive and statistically significant when the model controls for first-generation...
As suggested by Discipline Based Education Research (DBER), engaging with the material in class is key to achieve mastery. The write to learn activities provide three moments of engagement: 1. The development of the prompt, where students verbalize their ideas and therefore encounter the missing pieces of their understanding; 2. the review process,...
Based on their experiences in Fall 2018, Gonzalez and Wilton learned that the correct timing is key for these kind of activities. They noted that releasing the second prompt very close to the second midterm probably reduced the number of students completing the prompts; students prioritized studying over completing the assignment. The positive exam...
Highly-structured writing-to-learn prompts focus students’ attention on the important aspects of the threshold concept as they compose a draft. That attention is heightened when giving feedback to others’ drafts on a highly-structured peer review prompt. With focus, a little writing and a little review can impact exam performance on relevant questi...
UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Innovative Teaching Research and Learning (CITRAL) is a research hub that promotes and supports inclusive teaching and learning. Faculty Director Linda Adler-Kassner coordinated the biology faculty’s participation in STEMWrite and helped shape the activities and assessment. Associate Director Maggie Safronova conducted...
The STEMwrite Institute is a three-day intensive workshop designed to: (1) acquaint participants with evidence-based research on how low-stakes writing activities can promote deep conceptual learning, and (2) engage participants in a process of collaboratively designing writing prompts, peer-response activities, and learning assessments that result...
In keeping with STEMWrite’s guidelines, the full text of the writing-to-learn prompts featured in this blog post are available for use with appropriate citation. Get a copy.
- Peer Learning
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