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Teaching for Transfer: Reflective Self-Assessment Strategies in the First-Year Composition Classroom

Martin, Caitlin A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1290-7772
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375294535

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2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis uses qualitative and quantitative research strategies to understand the effectiveness of two classroom activities designed to teach for transfer in first-year composition (FYC). Drawing on students' completed Reflect, Project, Imagine heuristics and their comments on rubrics used to assess their own writing, this project explores students' perceptions of potential transfer between FYC and other writing contexts and the ways writing-related language can be cultivated in the FYC classroom through critical self-reflection and metacognition. Students participating in this study came to the FYC classroom with pre-existing writing vocabularies that both helped and hindered meaning-making, but through collaborative work and reflective activities, students began to adapt their vocabularies to the FYC environment. Implications for classroom instructors, composition programs, university-wide writing initiatives, and further research are also discussed, including ways to adopt reflective self-assessment strategies for the benefit of both students and instructors.
Jason Palmeri, PhD (Committee Chair)
Heidi McKee, PhD (Committee Member)
Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, PhD (Committee Member)
125 p.
Composition
first-year composition; transfer; writing transfer; rubrics; self-assessment; reflection; metacognition

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  • Martin, C. A. (2013). Teaching for Transfer: Reflective Self-Assessment Strategies in the First-Year Composition Classroom [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375294535

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Martin, Caitlin. Teaching for Transfer: Reflective Self-Assessment Strategies in the First-Year Composition Classroom. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375294535.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Martin, Caitlin. "Teaching for Transfer: Reflective Self-Assessment Strategies in the First-Year Composition Classroom." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375294535

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