As you look over your diagnostic grading grids and your scores, remember:
- the score is not a grade. It reflects the fact that the diagnostic was a draft. If I graded it as a final draft, you would subtract 5-10 points from it.
- The scores are consistent across the class (a range of 70s and 80s).
- The comments are similar in structure for each student. This is because many of the drafts had the same issues. Each set of comments are personalized with individual suggestions.
- Overall, the class demonstrates good, even above-average, reading and summary skills.
- Organization skills need improvement: theses and topic sentences were rare.
- Some refinement and expansion of critical thinking is necessary. Keywords and their definitions are one immediate way to address this issue right now.
- Writing progress happens by doing - we're going to have more in-class exercises like the lab today where we practice the skills we need to work on.
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