Writing Analysis
Where do I even start?
Every teacher knows the feeling. You pick up a student's writing and the problems are so many and so varied that giving useful feedback feels impossible. Where do you begin when everything needs work?
Writing is one of the most complex things we ask students to do. It is broad, varied, and difficult to assess consistently, especially when you are reading a stack of pieces at once. In small schools, there is often no colleague in your year level to confer with, no easy moderation partner to reality-check your judgements.
Writing Analysis was built to cut through that noise. It gives you a clear, structured read of a student's writing so you can identify strengths and next steps without second-guessing yourself.
Four tools. Not four things to do every time.
There are four ways to assess writing in Staffroom because assessment has different purposes at different times. You do not use all four together. You use the one that fits what you are trying to do right now.
Grade Assessment
Use this towards the end of semester when you are making grading decisions. Upload one or more pieces of writing by the same student and get guidance on where they are sitting against year level expectations. You still know things the tool does not. Whether the work was written under test conditions or planned, drafted, and published over weeks matters. You make the final call. The tool just gives you something to think with.
Growth Assessment
Upload two pieces of writing by the same student and the tool will show you where they have improved. Useful for writing feedback, parent-teacher interviews, IEP updates, and identifying next steps.
Rubric Assessment
Assess a piece of writing against a specific rubric. Common rubrics for common text types are already loaded. If you have a rubric you would like added, get in touch.
Skills Assessment
Sometimes you have been running a unit focused on a specific writing skill and you want to know if students have got it. This tool lets you analyse a piece of writing for those specific skills only, cutting out everything else.
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