Student Perceptions in Conferring: A Phenomenographic Exploration of Student Perceptions on Teacher-Student Writing Conferences

<p>This phenomenographic research explores how students perceive one-on-one (teacher-student) writing conferences. At least twice a year, I sit with my 9th-grade English students to discuss their writing. Together, we go over their last writing assignment. I coach them to make their writing better while pointing out positive elements of their writing. I check for understanding by having the students verbally repeat a summary of their conference. While I feel connected to the students and their writing by conferring, I have rarely considered what they thought about the conference. After our conference, do they feel like they truly learned something? I want to know their thoughts about how to make conferring about writing better for them. The research explores 9th-grade student perceptions of writing conferences in a rural Georgia high school. I used my own students for this research, which included 22 participants. My participants completed surveys after one writing conference. Participants answered a list of questions, both open-ended and closed-ended questions, about their conferring experience. By studying these participant surveys, I determined how students perceived teacher-student writing conferences. I interviewed five participants to seek further clarification of the overall survey answers.</p> <p>Questions I answered included:</p> <p>1. What are students' overall perceptions about writing conferences?</p> <p>2. What elements (if any) of writing conferences do students find useful?</p> <p>3. According to students, what can teachers do to make writing conferences more useful for students?</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Secondary Education - English (Ed.D)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2022

Author dc:creator

• Johnson, Jacqueline

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Darren Crovitz
• Dr. Rachel Gaines
• Dr. Anete Vásquez

• writing conferences
• student perception
• teacher to student conferences
• conferring
• Curriculum and Instruction

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/eddsmge/6

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:eddsmge-1005