EFL students trained to use a rubric as an instructional tool outperformed control students on compare-and-contrast essay writing¶

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q2 i? After a four-week treatment, the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on compare-and-contrast essays rated by three independent raters using the same rubric. → Turgut 2015

Evidence¶

Turgut 2015¶

Turgut, F., & Kayaoğlu, M. N. (2015). Using rubrics as an instructional tool in EFL writing courses. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 11(1), 47-58. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1105202

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Quasi-experiment with 38 intermediate-level university EFL students: treatment group (N=16) taught with the rubric, control group (N=22) without, same instructor. Post-treatment essays were scored by three independent raters; the article reports "experimental group mean (M=74), control group mean (M = 58)" as a statistically significant difference. The printed p-value reads p>.05 despite the reported significance.

"The results showed that there was statistically significant difference between two groups in the sense that the experimental group distinctively performed better than the control group in writi ng composition papers; (experimental group mean (M=74), control group mean (M = 58), t(df2)=: 9.987, p>.05."

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