Summary:
Kids in middle school were being evaluated in their response to their peer’s writing draft, the kids used a technique called P-Q-P which stands for praise, question, polish. The praise category was being scored as 1. Vague- comments that have no specific direction for revision, 2. General but useful- comments that are too general and provide little direction for revision, and 3.Specific- comments that provide specific direction for revision. After the first evaluation, results revealed that 28% of the kids wrote specific comments, 44% wrote general but useful comments, and 19% were vague comments. So the teachers set out to better that number by using a drill technique. At the second evaluation, following the drill technique the students’ results revealed a very good increase. And at the third evaluation the students showed very little vague comments.
Question:
Why were the kids scores improving after every evaluation?
Response:
The scores improved primarily because they became more and more familiar with the material they were studying. With practice makes perfect.
As the reader, I'm having a very hard time understanding what the article is really about from your summary. You may want to get rid of unecessary info, like the mentioning of the percentages. I don't feel it needs to be known.
ReplyDeleteFor fixing a few puncuation mistakes, I'd start in the beginning by changing:
ReplyDelete"Kids in middle school were being evaluated in their response to their peer’s writing draft, the kids used a technique called P-Q-P which stands for praise, question, polish.".....
To:
Kids in middle school were being evaluated in their response to their peer’s writing draft. The kids used a technique called P-Q-P, which stands for praise, question, polish.
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