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Archived posts from the category "Pedagogy"

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Mind the Gap: Time Between Reviews

Improvement depends on practice. In practice, frequency matters. Becoming a better reviewer takes practice. Because it happens between stages of students’ (graded) work as writers, giving helpful feedback gets short […]

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Crowdsourced Bibliography for Preparing Students to Give Helpful Peer Feedback

Each month, instructors contribute their syllabus blurbs or talking points for explaining the value of peer learning to their students in Eli’s free online PD workshop. This list reflects titles […]

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Reviewers’ Responses to One-word Drafts Reveal Challenges for Inquiry Projects

Scott Kushner, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the Harrington School of Communication and Media at University of Rhode Island, started his class this Spring with a […]

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Sorting Your Comment Digests

“The only important thing about feedback is what students do with it.” –Dylan William, “The Secret of Effective Feedback,” ASCD 73.7, April 2016 Our new browsable comment digest feature lets […]

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Publication: NSF-funded SciWrite@URI Shares Strategies for Better Science through Rhetoric

The Eli Review team congratulates the Science Writing and Rhetorical Training Program at the University of Rhode Island (or SciWrite@URI for short) for the best affirmation of a helpful feedback […]

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