Teaching · For Tutors

Feedback a student can act on, in the right order.

Rate the draft on six traits and write comments tied to places in it. The summary picks the two things to revise first, keeps sentence-level edits for later, and tells you when the feedback has no named strength or too many changes at once.

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The feedback record

One record per student and draft. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each draft, trait ratings, the two traits to revise first, the comments to give in order, and a check on the feedback itself.
Who it is for
Writing tutors, English and humanities tutors, and teachers giving feedback on essay drafts.
Format
Browser form used while reading a draft. Several saved drafts per student to see progress across revisions; printed with the summary or as a blank feedback sheet; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
?keep this, ask this, change this
Drawn for this page. Each comment is a strength to keep, a question to answer or a change to make, tied to a place in the draft.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the date.
  2. Note the assignment, the kind of writing and the draft stage.
  3. Rate the six traits against the assignment.
  4. Write comments tied to places in the draft.
  5. Give the student the two revisions first, with the strengths.

Read a draft

What the organizer is for

Bigger issues first

Writing centers have long worked on higher-order concerns, the claim, evidence and structure, before lower-order ones such as grammar. Sentences often change or disappear when the argument is revised, so editing them first wastes time.

A few things at a time

Feedback works when it is specific, tied to the work and limited to what a student can act on in one revision. Two or three priorities beat a page of corrections.

What this is not

The trait ratings are your judgment against the assignment, not a grade or a score on a published rubric. The teacher who set the assignment grades it.

Sources

  1. Hattie, J., and Timperley, H. (2007). The power of feedback. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 81 to 112.
  2. Graham, S., Bruch, J., Fitzgerald, J., and others (2016). Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively (NCEE 2017-4002). Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse.
  3. Purdue Online Writing Lab, Higher order concerns and lower order concerns (writing center practice).
  4. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, Writing anchor standard 1 (arguments supported by claims, reasoning and relevant evidence), as a general description of argument writing.

The example student, essay and comments are made up. Ratings are the tutor’s judgment, not a grade. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.