An Assignment Wrapper Promotes Student Self-Regulation of Learning in a Science Writing Assignment
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Abstract
We investigated the impact of an assignment wrapper in promoting self-regulation of learning in a series of written assignments for a First-Year Biology laboratory. Students completed a planning survey prior to submitting an Introduction assignment. Upon receipt of the graded Introduction, students completed an assignment wrapper, two more written assignments, and an end-of-term reflective survey used to measure the impact of the assignment wrapper on students’ approaches to writing assignments. In the planning survey, 46% of students accurately described the assignment requirements. Many reported high levels of stress (85.3%–87.3%) and anxiety (54.0%–59.9%) while planning and preparing the assignment. In the assignment wrapper, 67.9% reported having spent more time than expected on the assignment and 98% students indicated that they would change their approach for the next assignment. Students reported in the reflective survey that both the planning survey and assignment wrapper helped them consider different strategies when completing writing assignments (e.g., asking for clarification, avoiding procrastination, becoming aware of emotions and managing them constructively). Important implications for instructors include: creating a culture of help seeking, providing timelines for stages of writing, and acknowledging that emotional struggles are common among First-year students in STEM courses.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.060 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it