The development of WAC programs raised two kinds of assessment questions—concerning assessing students’ work and assessing the success of programs. First, student writing needed to be assessed in a new context. WAC in its very principles challenged the traditional assessment based on general skills displayed in undifferentiated testing situations. WAC highlighted that there were many different ...

Skillful writing is essential for professionals in science and medicine. Consequently, many undergraduate institutions have adjusted their curriculum to include in-depth instruction and practice in writing for students majoring in the sciences. In neuroscience, students are often asked to write a laboratory report in the style of a primary scientific article or a term paper structured like a re...

<p>Online written corrective feedback via Google Docs, in recent years, has been used and brought about positive outcomes different teaching contexts. In this light, study was conducted to examine the effects between teacher using Docs combined peer on EFL high school students’ performance writing paragraphs. The also attempted gain insights into attitudes towards effect of their paragrap...

As class sizes increase, methods of assessments shift from costly traditional approaches (e.g. expert-graded writing assignments) to more economic and logistically feasible methods (e.g. multiple-choice testing, computer-automated scoring, or peer assessment). While each method of assessment has its merits, it is peer assessment in particular, especially when made available online through a Web...