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How to use Open Response grading and Critique

• Start by watching the video to the right. Everything you need to know is there.
• This link will take you to writen details on grading open response.
• For details on the Peer Critique of essays go here.
• Also, see this paper, section "III. C. ADVANCED STUDENT RESPONSE SYSTEM" describes how a teacher uses this.

Read about the pedagogy behind this feature

This technoglgy is meant to help teacher Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions. See this this for a quick overview. See this for a longer treatment on the topic. There is now a great book from NCTM written by Cristina Heffernan's advisor, Peg Smith.

Christin O'Connor discusses how she uses essay and essay critique Here is a video showing Christine O'Connor doing peer-review essay critique. She select 5 student responses and asked the student to say which student answer is best. After shooting this video we built the essay critique support you learned about on this page.