1. Foundations for Writing Success www.myaccess.com
Dr. Madeline Pan

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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!

5. 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 papers ranging from 1 - 6 1 2 3 4 5 6

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

7. 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

8. 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

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

12. 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
Add to “Favorites”
Demonstrate student navigation

13. 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.