Zhao, J. J. et al. "The Effect of Continuous Process Improvement on the Quality of Students' Business Writing," Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 37(3), pp. 142-158.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....learning (such as correct answers on exams) faculty have at their disposal, for the first time, the means to make learning visible, by which it becomes understandable, accessible, and eventually controllable. Continuous improvement models have been found to be effective in science [2] writing [3] and software engineering [4 8] courses. Faculty who have not adopted a continuous improvement model typically have one of three models of course assessment. One is the traditional instructional model, informed by traditional course assessments graded student products (exams, reports, ....

....a continuous improvement model is quite different. It is to help faculty and students understand the processes by which the students learn. These processes are rarely visible to faculty because their expertise has made these processes so automatic in themselves that they are not aware of them [3]. These processes are invisible to the students because most college students have not developed sufficient metacognitive awareness to recognize cognitive processes in themselves [3] To adopt an assessment based continuous improvement model instructors have to change in three substantial ways. ....

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Zhao, J. J. et al. "The Effect of Continuous Process Improvement on the Quality of Students' Business Writing," Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 37(3), pp. 142-158.

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