Plan

[Alemu Hailu]

Mekonnen and Tesfaye have prepared their plan to conduct the action research. Please read their attached and give your comments.

Alemu

[Ross Graham]

Many thanks to Mekonnen and Tesfaye for a very interesting and thorough  project plan. Here are a few personal comments. I expect others will add theirs.

 

Re teacher feedback, you say (p.10 that due to large classes,  "there would be insufficient time for one-to-one feedback". I take this to mean that at present there is insufficient time in yuor classes. But I also understand that you are doubtful about the efficacy of teacher feedback (p.2) These are the same issues that we face in Coventry and I suspect they are fouond worldwide. We are all looking for a better way. This leads me to these questions:

 

Q1. One of your research questions concerns the envisaged role of peer-review of essays in relation to module delivery.  Although this is something to be discovered through a continuous process of AR, do you see it as supplementing or even posibly  replacing teacher feedback?

Q2. Will students be given criteria to apply to other students' writing? And if so, would kind of training, if any, would they be given in using the criteria? Can students in effect train each other, with teacher help?  You use 'focus group' with two distinct meanings on p. 5, so that it is not quite clear what you have in mind. It does seem to me that some kind of combination of individual peer-review and whole-class forum could be valuable.

 

Ross

[Alemu Hailu]

Dear Ross,

Thanks for your comments. I have printed your comments to give it to Mekonnen and Tesfaye.

Alemu,