Finally, the conference is a good setting for teaching grammar. A way to address this level of writing, though, is not to correct errors but to indicate their presence in a line of writing by a check in the margin. This method challenges the student to find and correct the errors, most of which turn out to be careless. A Practical Synthesis of Current Views. The goal of formative evaluation is to promote learning and help students approximate skilled writers' behavior.
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1993 Reader-response theories argue that men and women respond differently to literary texts. Nevertheless, research in which a group of male and female teachers were asked to evaluate unidentified essays reveals little gender bias. Longitudinal study of two teachers, one male and one female, also reveals little bias. Blind evaluation increases the chance of distortion by essay topics or styles uncongenial to the evaluator's gender identity. A maternal model of teaching, which gives a responsive reading to all students, attends to the contexts of writing, and encourages independence, most tends to obviate gender bias.