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Successful Teaching Practices: The What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide on Secondary Writing

Mon, April 16, 12:25 to 1:55pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Concourse Level, Concourse G Room

Session Type: Symposium

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The What Works Clearinghouse practice guides provide empirically based teaching recommendations on the most pressing issues in education. This research symposium will present four representative empirical studies that informed the recommendations set forth by the WWC practice guide on secondary writing. The four different studies used randomized control trial methodologies across different secondary school settings and contexts to test the efficacy of their interventions. These studies together support the following three recommendations in the practice guide: 1) explicitly teach appropriate writing strategies using a Model-Practice-Reflect instructional cycle; 2) integrate writing and reading to emphasize key writing features; and 3) use assessments of student writing to inform instruction and feedback. Symposium participants will gain a deeper understanding of these teaching recommendations.

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