Research
Research
The CRADEL Project
The Consortium for Research, Assessment, and Development of Engaged Literacies
Researchers: Carmen Manning, David Jolliffe, & Kendra Sisserson
Grant Proposals
What Do Students Have to Say?: Online versus Traditional Journaling
Carmen Manning and Jill Kotta, UW-Eau Claire
Summary
This project had two main purposes. The first was to determine if there are material differences in the nature of student journal responses to literature when that journaling is done in WebCT, an electronic discussion forum, versus traditionally written on paper. The second was to provide the student collaborator, an English Education student, experience with teacher action research.
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Continuing the Conversation: Further Research into Using WebCT for Journal Response
Carmen Manning and Jessica Kazeck, UW-Eau Claire
Summary
This project was a continuation of the Online versus Traditional Journaling project. It was continued because it did not engage all questions desired since it only lasted one semester. The preliminary research was expanded with a new student collaborator. The continued research dealt with the differences between students completing journal entries online in WebCT and in a traditional paper format by collecting more data to confirm and expand preliminary results."
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Learning to Write: Collecting Benchmark Writing Samples from First-Grade Students
Carmen Manning, UW-Eau Claire
Summary
This project focused on first-grade students at Roosevelt Elementary School in Eau Claire and had three main objectives. The first was to compile a book of benchmark writing samples to trace the nature of student writing produced over the course of first-grade for students typical to the school. The second was to use the benchmark writing samples for multiple purposes in the school: for teacher collaboration on writing assessment and curriculum development, as writing models for students, and as a basis for communication between teachers and parents regarding the writing development of their children. The third was to use the benchmark writing samples as data to investigate the differences and roadblocks to writing development in a diverse group of first grade writers.
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Is That Writing Project Engaging?: A Study of Writing Assignments in the Eau Claire Public Schools
Carmen Manning, UW-Eau Claire
Summary
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which teacher writing assignments across grade levels in the Eau Claire Public Schools invite and compel students to participate in Engaged Literacy activities.