Why Do I Have To Use The Learning Record
Online?
The State of Texas requires that its university
writing programs implement and utilize some
system to measure student learning over time
and in certain learning strands. The University
of Texas at Dallas requires that an uniform
and consistent grading criteria be applied to
all student work in our Rhetoric classes. The
Learning Record Online (LRO) provides a platform
on which to meet these various requirments in
a humane and educationally sound manner.
The LRO presents a much clearer picture of a
student's learning throughout the term of a
course. It also makes it possible for students
to account for experimental writing, or "invisible"
work such as collaboration with other students.
The LRO, because it functions as a portfolio
of student work, can document observations and
analysis that show a student has learned something
significant from his or her work around the
submission of the "final" draft of
any writing assignment. It can help give both
the student and the teacher a much clearer picture
of a student's learning throughout the term
of a course and in certain learning strands.
And, as long as the material archived in a student's
portfolio show student has learned something
significant, the LRO can support a more positive
evaluation of student learning than conventional
grading.
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