[Oz-teachers] TARGET; MS Word formatting

[Tom Worthington]

On 31/01/12 07:35, Barbara Braxton wrote:
> I am currently marking university assignments ... using the Review feature of Word (I'm using
> Word 2007) which puts a comment in the margin ... maybe why
> much of what I wrote on their first assignments seems to have been ignored. ...

According to the course on assessment I just completed, students ignore 
detailed comments in returned assignments, however big you write them in 
the margin.

The suggestion is to use a rubric to give standardised feedback coupled 
to the marking scheme, to get student's attention (as students are 
interested in marks). Then just add a few sentences of custom comment: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/12/introduction-to-rubrics.html

This was used to mark our assignments for the assessment course and it 
was effective.


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