Efficiently Grading & Responding to Students’ Writing √ §

How do we effectively grade and respond to student writing without being overwhelmed? In this session, we’ll revisit Bean’s Chapters 13 and 14 to explore key mid- and end-of-semester concerns, including helping students improve their writing projects before submission and cultivating improved learning (and easier grading) through effective and efficient feedback. We’ll use the revised and updated edition of Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (3rd Ed.) by John C. Bean and Dan Melzer (2021) to help you build on grading efficiencies explored in last semester’s Faster, Easier, and More Effective … Grading? session, though attendance at that session is not required to join this discussion.

This revised edition offers the clear advice, practical strategies, and useful examples you appreciated in past editions along with the latest on writing transfer; metacognition, self-assessment, and peer review; translingual approaches to diversity in language practices; grading alternatives and ungrading; and social media and technology. Our discussion focuses on:

• “Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the Paper Load” (Chapter 13, pp. 278-297), and
• “Providing Effective and Efficient Feedback” (Chapter 14, pp. 298-316).

Participants may access the ebook online at any time through the AOK library in advance of the session using the following step-by-step instructions:

1. Log into myUMBC
2. Go to the AOK Library Website
3. In the AOK OneSearch box, type the book title (not the chapter title) and press Search
4. Locate the ebook, and click on the link to Online Access under the descriptive information

Please click “Going Virtually” below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.