Improving Students' English Writing Competence by Implementing Peer-assessment

DOI

10.2991/isss-17.2017.58How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Peer Assessment, English Writing, Deep Learning.

Abstract

The aim of this innovation project is to find out whether the implementation of peer-assessment can effectively improve the students' competence of writing in English. Several kinds of leadership are applied into this research. The researcher revised the research plan as a democratic/participative leader. Staff members are invited into and share the responsibility in the research, which shows the invitational and distributed leadership in certain degree. The research was carried on a pilot group, which have the same characteristics with its reference group, to check the intended outcomes. According to the evidences collected through questionnaires and interviews, peer-assessment does play an active role in stimulating students' deep learning, hence improving their learning.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Hongmei Li
AU  - Yaoshun Zhu
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TI  - Improving Students' English Writing Competence by Implementing Peer-assessment
BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 264
SN  - 2352-5398
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