Nate, Carleigh, and Taylor's work on summarizing pop-quiz feedback

Making Sense of Steph's Feedback

Notes

• Themes: underlining, circling, staring, smiley faces, comments with arrows, punctuation.
• Patterns:

• Underlined: shows teamwork and WE/common goals as a group (reference Natasha, and me)
• Circling: key words that help get your point across or she doesn’t understand what you are trying to say. Clkel0-showed both
• Stars: an answer Steph was looking for. I wrote that "the lessons' come up by the way the class' conversations are going" and I Steph put a star next to it and underlined it. I think that it's important because it has a lot to do with how the dynamics of our class are going to work. –ddavies Hmonahan=stared which showed that it was an important sentence.
• Comments: giving her feedback, agreeing or questioning-either through complimentary statements or questions, clarifying. Kim=question, Me=compliment, Shilton12=compliment. Hmonahan=question Clkel0=question.
• Exclamation points=approval, you are thinking like steph. Hmonahan, Ckmetz. Rosemara=”Stephjoke also put exclamation points next to the word "lightning", and the phrase "A new technique of learning".

• Outliers:

• Some of Mhatz underlined phrases didn’t show a common goal as a class. “I wrote, "..in Spanish…" Steph underlined that”
• Kimdelehanty-circled words that weren’t clear: circling random ---Smheffer helped showed that Kim isn’t an outlier with circling.
• Asbolduc and Ktrychon=comments about tweeting.
• Rhann-circled group…norm=underline

Essay

After analyzing the feedback, our group has made sense of Steph’s comments on the quiz. We now understand why Steph underlines, circles, stars, or comments on certain remarks. In addition we found multiple outliers in the data.

After looking at the first couple of links, we easily concluded that Steph undlined certain phrases or words, as an attempt to show teamwork and create a vibe of “we” rather than the concerns of an individual. Many of these underlined comments showed common goals as a group. The main examples of this data is shown on the user pages of NatashaKapadia as well as Ckmetz. On NatashaKapadia’s page, she wrote: “affect how we learn/ interact and Steph underlined it,” she wrote: “act as a group and Steph underlined it,” as well as, “group dynamic, Steph underlinded it.” Ckmetz’s test was underlined with similar phrases, such as: Steph underlined "how our class is set up,” and Steph underlined "interacting as a group.” Looking at these examples it is obvious that Steph underlines phrases or comments that pertain to the class as a whole.

After analyzing the data, we also concluded that Steph circled certain words or phrases in an attempt to show key words that get the test taker’s point across, or an attempt to inform the test taker that she doesn’t know what he/she is trying to say. The user page of Clkel0 especially showed both of these points. Examples include: “Clkel0 writing: "...gained knowledge..." and Steph circling that phrase. With circling this, it helps Clkel0 get the point of the essay across. Clkel0 also wrote: "normal instructor" and Steph circled "normal." That shows that Steph doesn’t want the class or instructor to be considered as normal. This also shows that Steph doesn’t understand what Clkel0 is trying to say by normal. After seeing these examples on Clkel0 and others pages, Steph uses circles to point out words or phrases used to get the test taker’s point across or to show concern/not understanding the person’s comment.

Stars used on our classmates tests showed an answer Steph was looking for. It showed a sense of connection between teacher and student; that we were all on the same page by writing certain comments in our tests. User Ddavies wrote that "the lessons' come up by the way the class' conversations are going" and Steph put a star next to it and underlined it. I think that it's important because it has a lot to do with how the dynamics of our class are going to work.” User Hmonahan states that what Steph “stared showed that it was an important sentence.” This took effect with when Hmonahan wrote, “don't have a very structured idea of what we are learning about.” These examples prove that staring a sentence shows importance and that Steph agrees with what the student said.

Comments that Steph wrote on people’s test were used to give her feedback to the test taker, either in the form of questioning or agreeing with the test taker. Steph achieved this by blatantly asking questions, or through complimentary statements. User, Kimdelehanty had a comment written by Steph that proposed a question along with Hmonahan and Clkel0. Ckmetz’s test had a compliment written by Steph along with user Shilton12. Specifically on user Shilton12, Steph underlined "learning about what we want to learn" and she commented, "nice, you captured the interaction!" These is a clear compliment agreeing with Shilton12’s sentence. An example of a question in Steph’s comment is, Kimdelehanty stating that Steph wrote, "what does it mean to be random?" because I Kimdelehanty said the video in Spanish was random. From those two examples, those clearly show that either a question is raised or a compliment is stated in her comment.

Steph also used exclamation points and smiley faces. We believe that Steph used exclamation points as a way to approve of the test taker’s comments, and communicate that the test taker is thinking in the way that Steph wants him/her to think. Examples of this are found on the user page of Rosemara, when he/she wrote that ”Stephjoke also put exclamation points next to the word "lightning", and the phrase "A new technique of learning". Steph agrees that this is a new way of learning, and she is approving Rosemara’s way of thinking. Steph used the smiley face as another sense of approval. A specific example would be user D.Robinson saying "we will be doing at lot of choosing what to study" and Steph replying with a smiley face next to it. This clearly shows that student D.Robinson was on the right page as Steph and pointed out a correct statement.

In evaluating the data, we also found multiple outliers. For example, on the user pages of Asbolduc and Ktrychon, Steph made comments about the importance of Tweeting. These are the only two people that we found in which Steph made comments about tweeting, thus making them outliers. In addition, on the user page of Rhann, Steph circled the word group, while she normally would have underlined this same statement.

Throughout the entire evaluation of our classes posts, we now understand the methods of Steph’s feedback on the pop quiz. There are many common patterns throughout the tests, which are explained above. We now see that Steph’s feedback isn’t random, and that it has a method.