I've been following this series on AI-supported writing feedback, and I'm super curious about whether the students are now better able to write. It's one thing to be able to take feedback and improve a piece of writing; it's another to internalize that feedback and be a better writer in the future. Have you done any longer-range work to see if students are becoming better writers overall?
Yes, you are absolutely right and in most of our posts on this we do mention the risk of just improving the writing, not the student. It is hard for us to follow up with this y6 cohort as they change schools in September but we have some other projects planned which should address this. Stay tuned!
I've been following this series on AI-supported writing feedback, and I'm super curious about whether the students are now better able to write. It's one thing to be able to take feedback and improve a piece of writing; it's another to internalize that feedback and be a better writer in the future. Have you done any longer-range work to see if students are becoming better writers overall?
Yes, you are absolutely right and in most of our posts on this we do mention the risk of just improving the writing, not the student. It is hard for us to follow up with this y6 cohort as they change schools in September but we have some other projects planned which should address this. Stay tuned!