The process of responding to supervisory feedback requires student writers position themselves toward both the provider and content that feedback, indicating their stance in interaction evolving disciplinary competence. How positionings are discursively shaped, developed, enacted influence thesis revisions, however, has been relatively unexplored. In this article, we trace how two master’s stud...

A peer review system that automatically evaluates student feedback comments was deployed in a university research methods course. The course required students to create an argument diagram to justify a hypothesis, then use this diagram to write a paper introduction. Diagram and paper first drafts were both reviewed by peers. During peer review, the system automatically analyzed the quality of s...

In this paper, we examine the impact of three learning activities designed to foster more robust learning in a Genetics Cognitive Tutor module on pedigree analysis problem solving, in an experimental study. The three activities are (1) interleaved worked examples with student explanations; (2) enhanced feedback with tutor-provided explanations of problem solving steps; and (3) explicit scaffold...

This article explores innovative peer-assessment strategies to create and support lifelong learners. It proposes that the confirmation panel—a formal progression requirement of a postgraduate degree—can effectively facilitate feedback, function as an assessment tool, meaningfully induct both secondary undergraduate tertiary students into community practice. The panel offers immediacy richness p...

Within the new feedback paradigm, concept of student and teacher literacy is gaining more attention, with most studies focussing on what it entails how can be supported by design. This paper contributes to this, students do information. It proposes an instructional model for processes activities seeking-, making sense of-, using- responding information specific prompts all four activities. Foll...

Mastering writing has always proved an almost insurmountable barrier to EFL learners. In an attempt to alleviate problems advanced EFL learners have with writing, this study aimed at investigating the effect of scaffolded instruction through writing frames constructed from extended prefabricated lexical bundles. 40 female advanced English students, selected out of a population of 65, were rando...

Dual-T project investigates how ICT can support learning activities involving sharing and reflection about professional experience in order to harmonize school learning with practical experience. In this study we tested the effects of low and high scaffolding on collaborative writing activities on professional procedures. We expected longer, more correct texts to emerge from strongly scaffolded...

One challenge that many neuroscience instructors face is how to teach students to communicate within the field. The goal of this project was to improve students' scientific writing in an introductory psychology laboratory course that serves as a feeder course into the neuroscience curriculum. This course included a scaffolded approach - breaking assignments into different sections that build up...