controlling for student absences in teacher evaluation systems' value-added models is a relatively inexpensive way to increase …

) whether students assess their writing tasks the same as their teacher does, (2) if they assess differently, why they do it … differently. Twenty four students who were taking Writing IV course were involved in this study. The research method used was a … mix of quantitative and qualitative descriptive. For one semester the students were taught to write an essay in English …

where students are randomly assigned to tutorial groups. We find this to be largely not the case. Academic rank is unrelated … to students' current and future performance and only weakly positively related to students' course evaluations. Building …