Foundations for Writing Success www.myaccess.com Dr. Madeline Pan mpan@vantage.com 908-227-4523

Why MY Access!? We’re here to help? Students demonstrate significant improvement as writers. Creates an energized and enthusiastic environment for writers to flourish Builds student and teacher confidence as writers and facilitators of good writing practices Sustains student interest in becoming independent and responsible revisionists through recurring reflection, analysis and application of feedback Lays the foundation for HOPE

MY Access! Does not replace teachers Does not replace good writing instruction Does support effective use of the writing process: teachers teach skills that are learned, applied reinforced over several revisions

Today’s Agenda MY Access! Account Management Understanding MY Access! Rubrics Understanding MY Access! Scoring Intellimetric Approximator Flags/Alerts Administering the Practice DWA Experience writing & submitting for the DWA FAQ and Wrap-up!

THE PROCESS: How Prompts Become IntelliMetric™ Students write to pilot prompts and submit their responses for scoring Two expert scorers must agree on the score based on the rubric Expert Scoring Team 6 4 1 { Approximately 1200-1500 papers ranging from 1 - 6 1 2 3 4 5 6

THE PROCESS: How Prompts Become IntelliMetric™ } IntelliMetric™ Prompt Anchor Set 1 2 3 4 5 6

Scoring Student Writing in MY Access! Pilot Prompt Scoring Pilot prompts are developed by schools, districts and/or Vantage Cannot be scored by IntelliMetric™ until a training set has been developed TWO options for scoring: Approximator, an alternate AI scoring engine, and/or the Vantage Scoring Center Approximator instantly provides an approximate holistic score based on a 6 point rubric Scoring Center scores student responses and adds these to the training/anchor set scoringcenter@vantage.com

Scoring Student Writing in MY Access! MY Prompt Teacher, school or district -created Only available to the creator and the students who are assigned a MY Prompt Cannot be scored by IntelliMetric ™ Two scoring options: Approximator or teacher- scored

MY Access! tools available for the DWA (Practice & Testing) Notepad Spellchecker Rubric Formatting Tools, e.g. highlighter, bold, italics, etc.

Enter MY Access! Avoiding the chaos Before students log on, explain that MY Access! is a web-based program that can be used at any computer with Internet access. Have students click on the browser (e.g. Chrome) and type www.myaccess.com Add to “Favorites” Demonstrate student navigation

Enter MY Access! Avoiding the chaos Demonstrate how to log on, explain the domains/traits on the snapshot report, the weekly updates of student writing progress depicted on the graphs and the message board. Click on “Assignments” on the navigation bar Click “START” to the right of assignment Explain that the top of the screen displays feedback and the bottom of the screen is the writing place.