Below is the beginning of my coding efforts that I explained in the last post. After meeing with Dr. Bowers-Campbell Saturday, I think I am going to add another category for graphic organizers. You can see that both students below used a venn diagram to compare and contrast stories. I know teachers use graphic organizers to teach students to organize their thoughts, but we are wanging students to learn to put their final answers into sentence form. As you can see, I am tracking when they do not restate the question with and "R" and don't answer all parts with a "MP" for missing parts. When they not prove their answer I am marking a "PA." One interesting observation in the example by Kelsey below is that she got a "4" which is full credit, but she was still missing part of RAP. She also chose to use a graphic organizer instead of using sentence form. Since we are still in the learning stages of RAP she was able to earn full credit, but after the method has been taught more we will expect students to use sentence form instead to receive full credit for their work.
Kelsey earned a 4, but still had missing parts.
This student gets a writer as part of her IEP.
Tallying...the beginning stages.
I'm sure I will continue tweaking this process, but this is astart. I am surprisingly excited to dig into this. I just wish my schedule allowed me the time to get it done without stressing out.
isn't it amazing what all you discover when you dig in?
ReplyDeleteIt helps me to read about your experiences so far with coding. I have finally conducted interviews and transcribed them so I am ready to begin this process as well. I like the codes that you came up with in order to really understand the students’ work. I find it very interesting that Kelsey got a 4 on her writing but yet was still missing a part of the RAP method. I do think it is good though that you are going to be more particular in grading the students’ work the more they use the method. So they were able to decide whether or not they wanted to use a graphic organizer? Thank you for all of the visuals. It gives me a good idea of the process you are going through.
ReplyDeleteIn the past they were able to choose how to record their answer because we didn't really have a strategy in place to use. A sub was in the room the day this ERQ was given and so she didn't reinforce RAP. Actually, if you notice in the example above of the student who earned a 2, the sub was the writer and she used a venn diagram to record the student's answer. I'm not sure if she asked the student or if the student prompted her. Either way, it is the goal of all the teachers that students use paragraph form and are working to move all students toward that.
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