Summit IntelliMetric MY Access! ® A Web-delivered Assessment And Instructional Writing Tool Lee, Wei-Jiin Summit IntelliMetric GLoCALL 2007 Vietnam 2 – 4 November 2007 (Hanoi University, Hanoi) 5 – 7 November 2007 (SEAMEO RETRAC, HCMC)

Summit IntelliMetric Outline 1. Introduction 2. MY Access! ® - Overview - Benefits To … Students & Educators - Interactive of Teacher & Student 3. Let’s go live ….. - Teacher’s view - Student’s view

Summit IntelliMetric “Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.” ~ Syrene Forsman For students to develop into “real” writers, they must develop a repertoire of strategies and have the confidence to make choices regarding genre, content, structure, organization, and style. ~ Mark Wiley Writing is a Recursive Process: "Just write and keep writing...It will probably come in waves. After a flurry, stop and take a brief rest. But don't stop too long. Don't think about what you are writing or what you have written or else you will overload the circuit again“ ~ Peter Elbow

Summit IntelliMetric Writing is Fundamental for Learning …yet Most educators have huge class loads nowadays Writing assignments are a burden on time Hours are spent on grading papers Class load hinders the ability to provide quick feedback Fewer writing assignments are assigned to students (get to the place they need to be)

Summit IntelliMetric Overview of MY Access! ® a web-delivered, portfolio based English writing instructional tool based on the IntelliMetric ® automated essay scoring engine is proven tool that to dramatically improve students’ basic writing skills in as few as six weeks an award-winning program diagnoses and assesses the writing ability of students from upper primary to secondary and at the college level provides an interactive writing environment and more opportunity for students to practice their writing skills

Summit IntelliMetric students’ work is stored in an online portfolio, they can do their assignments anywhere, anytime they have access to a computer and the Internet  gaining unlimited opportunity to practice writing similarly, educator / teacher can view and monitor individual student’s portfolio to provide (one-to-one instruction) allows educator …..  to conduct early diagnosis,  delivers writing assignment more frequently,  monitors writing performance of students Overview of MY Access! ® ….. cont

Summit IntelliMetric 1. Holistic (Overall) and Analytical (Domain) scores and targeted feedback in the areas of:- Focus & Meaning - Cohesiveness and consistency in purpose and main idea Content & Development – Content breadth, support of theme, elaboration Organization – Logical sequence of ideas and discourse Language, Use & Style – Word/sentence complexity and variety, tone/voice Mechanics & Convention - Conformance to conventions of English Language 2. Guided Feedbacks MY-Tutor – Prescriptive feedback that motivates students to write, edit and learn MY-Editor – more than a Grammar Checker Teacher embedded and general comments MY Access! ® provides…

Summit IntelliMetric MY Access! ® Benefits To….. Students increase the frequency of their writing opportunity anywhere, anytime develop a range of strategies in the writing process  prewriting, drafting, organizing and revising receive the instructional feedback on scoring for effective writing access to a Writer’s Guide with over 70 developmental activities that help students to improve their writing in all 5 domains provide an online portfolio for students to review the feedbacks, and then revise their essays on a 24/7 basis write different topic types (Informative, Narrative, Persuasive, Literary)

Summit IntelliMetric MY Access! ® Benefits To….. Educators spend less time reading, grading and correcting students’ papers gain additional time for curriculum planning and focus on teaching (one-on-one instruction) to direct students to read, write essay responses and receive scores for independent writing tasks the robust reporting features within MY Access! produces up-to-the-minute student performance data, enabling teachers to make timely, data-driven decisions for successful, differentiated instruction

Summit IntelliMetric Teacher Login with username & password Student Setup Class 1. Class general info 2. Create students 3. Create assignments View Students’ Portfolio Give comments (embedded / general) or provide human scores Revise essay according to the diagnostic instruction or teacher’s comment Choose an assignment & start writing Utilizes system provided writing tools in their writing process Essay completed. Submit for computer scoring Receive immediate diagnostic feedback and scores Login with username & password MY Access! ® Interactive of Teacher & Student Unlimited Revision Students’ Portfolio

Summit IntelliMetric MY Access! ® Let’s Go Live…….

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