Transition from high school to college writing: Transition from OSP 1 to OSP 2
Session 040
Stephen R. Acker, Gabriel Moulton, Kay Halasek
Wednesday
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Room: Rm602
Session Abstract
In 2005, teams of high school and university writing instructors created rubrics with which to evaluate the writing of high school seniors planning to attend college. Forty-one students, distributed among a suburban high school and two urban schools submitted preliminary essays and then final essays based on feedback and exchanges conducted within OSP 1. Overall, student writing improved (p<. 05) approximately .5 points on five point assessment scales in categories derived from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory - ideas and content, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, and use of conventions. In our follow-up, we will construct parallel matrix, reflection, and reviewer tools in OSP 2 to compare this rubric to one based on state of Ohio writing standards, and extend the populations served by four of 26 colleges entering a statewide pilot of OSP/Sakai in 2006. This session will present the findings of our pilot and demonstrate how we will extend our work based on the new functionality available in OSP2.
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