*See Artifact<\/a>\u00a0for full results breakdown<\/span><\/p>\n The results were positive in that student ability to articulate\/identify an author\u2019s thesis had improved.<\/span><\/p>\n After reading pretests, I observed that some students clearly didn’t read the article closely and some students just didn’t have an understanding of “thesis statement.” At the end of the quarter, I knew my \u00a0students better and I was surprised to see that some of my best students (high achieving, diligent) got a minus on the pre-test, showing that being an academically successful student doesn’t correlate with their success in identifying a thesis. Perhaps lack of prior knowledge or lack of reading strategies contributes?<\/span><\/p>\n After reading post-tests, \u00a0I observed that most students understood the nature of a thesis statement– that it is a sentence and not a smattering of ideas or questions. Some students took the thesis directly from the author, which I had always offered as an option, but no one did that in the pre-test. The thesis statements of the post-tests were also written in language that is much more specific. It occu<\/span>rred to me that perhaps students “tried harder” on the post-test because I had been their teacher for several weeks at that point and they had learned that I wasn’t kidding about collecting and actually grading homework. When I assigned the pre-test, they didn’t know me well or how closely I’d look at homework. <\/span><\/p>\n Lambert:<\/b> I took each student\u2019s pre and post test and compared them directly. \u00a0One thing I noticed which I did not expect was that students not only identified a thesis more accurately but their responses were worded more confidently. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How did you determine the effectiveness of your intervention? Henderson: At the end of the quarter, I did a post-test that followed the same protocol as the pretest– assigning a reading and asking students to articulate or identify the author\u2019s thesis. This was an attempt to assess student ability to read a text objectively and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8581,"featured_media":0,"parent":35417,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-300","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35652,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions\/35652"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Graph](\"https:\/\/test-inside.ewu.edu\/successfultransitions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2017\/04\/Graph.jpg\")
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