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Benefits

¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵWrites provides a number of benefits for students, instructors, program administration, and program assessment.

Student Benefits:

• Reduces confusion for students by providing focused feedback that constructively targets assignment learning outcomes
• Encourages vital meta-cognitive work in the self review stage of drafting
• Allows students to productively engage with not only their own writing, but also the writing of their peers
• Creates community by encouraging collaboration among students around writing

Faculty Benefits:

• Enables precise matching of feedback to specific learning outcomes
• Visualizes insights into student learning that can be rapidly addressed
• Provides insights into the impacts of instructors’ individual pedagogical practices, which is particularly important for new instructors and instructors new to the subject matter
• Allows more engagement with student work, while saving time in the feedback process

Administrative Benefits:

• Illuminates potential gaps in instructional approach
• Reports insights into student learning on a just-in-time basis
• Yields insights into whether assignments are successfully achieving learning outcomes
• Reveals areas where instructional weaknesses may need to be addressed

Assessment Benefits:

• Measures specific cognitive, planning, and collaborative domains of writing through specific task-based outcomes
• Aligns feedback directly with learning outcomes
• Makes formative and summative assessment clearer for students and faculty
• Provides an administrative view across sections
• Enables completion of institutional assessment and programmatic assessment through rigorous research and analysis

¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵWrites also provide benefits related to research. Learn more about data collection and the research being conducted.