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THE GIVE AND TAKE OF PEER REVIEW: UTILIZING MODELING AND IMITATION
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Byrne, Kathry
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-783X
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1438036070
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2015, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
This dissertation examines Vygotsky’s theory of imitation and it relationship to the zone of proximal development. After noting incongruities within scholarship regarding the ZPD, I discuss the similarities between Vygotsky’s theory of imitation and Bandura’s theory of modeling. Based on this discussion, I operationalize Bandura’s paradigm for successful modeling, introduce his notion of self-efficacy, and describe how modeling and imitation provides students an opportunity to achieve mastery skills needed in a peer review session, skills which are effective in changing an individual’s sense of efficacy and increases motivation for peer review and engagement in the writing process. This semester long, exploratory study used pre and post Self Efficacy surveys (see Bandura, Pajares, Zimmerman), pre and post in class writings, and an informal interview to generate data; results indicate that modeling and imitation increased student ability and engagement with peer review. Moreover, the participant’s favorable claims for peer review and the effects which modeling had on them suggest that modeling cognitive strategies changed these writers’ attitude toward revision and the peer review process. By providing observable behaviors and allowing students to imitate these behaviors, the mystique of the peer review process and the interpretive demand of the rough draft was reduced. In addition, understood as an important step in the writing process, students were using it in other writing tasks and intended to continue using it beyond the composition class.
Committee
Sara Newman, PhD (Committee Chair)
Michele Eodice, PhD (Committee Member)
Robin Selinger, PhD (Committee Member)
Lewis Fried, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
155 p.
Subject Headings
Composition
Keywords
Imitation
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Peer Review
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Writing Center
;
Zone of Proximal Development
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Modeling
;
Writing
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Byrne, K. (2015).
THE GIVE AND TAKE OF PEER REVIEW: UTILIZING MODELING AND IMITATION
[Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1438036070
APA Style (7th edition)
Byrne, Kathry.
THE GIVE AND TAKE OF PEER REVIEW: UTILIZING MODELING AND IMITATION.
2015. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1438036070.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Byrne, Kathry. "THE GIVE AND TAKE OF PEER REVIEW: UTILIZING MODELING AND IMITATION." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1438036070
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THE GIVE AND TAKE OF PEER REVIEW: UTILIZING MODELING AND IMITATION by Kathry Byrne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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