Sharon Zumbrunn used 287 fourth grade students as her sample to better understand the relationship between student's perceptions of feedback toward their writing and their beliefs about their own writing. The experiment was designed to explore whether better understanding this relationship could become a predictive tool for student's writing success. She used 2 different surveys that asked students to rank their answers on a scale. This allowed her to not only gather answers to the survey questions but to also gather data toward understanding the frequency of the behavior or response in question or the student's commitment to the answer. The surveys were administered by the teachers in their classrooms and the findings showed that there is a relationship and that further research can inform instructional practice to increase student's writing success.
5 questions I have for the research team:
5 questions I have for the research team:
- Why fourth graders and not high school students who may have a greater appreciation for self-reflection?
- Were the surveys developed in collaboration with Sharon Zumbrunn?
- If they were, was that because there were no pre-existing surveys?
- Why were surveys and not interviews used?
- Were teacher's feedback methods included in data gathering?
