Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2011

Self-Designed Points: Turning Responsibility for Learning Over to Students

Jeff Sommers

Abstract

The use of Self-Designed Points as part of a point-by-point grading system can encourage students to exercise more initiative about their own learning in a first-year composition course.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2011-05-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc201115239
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition multimodality

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