Teaching and assessing writing: recent advances in understanding, evaluating, and improving student performance. /
White, Edward M. 1933-
Teaching and assessing writing: recent advances in understanding, evaluating, and improving student performance. / Edward M. White. - 2nd ed. rev. and expanded. - Portland, Me. : Calendar Islands Publishers, 1998. - xxii, 331 p.: ill.; 23 cm.
Originally published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325) and index.
Contents: Assesment - A Critical tool in the teaching of writing: Assessment as treat and promise -- Assessment and the design of writing assignments -- Using eassay tests -- How theories of reading affect response to writing -- Responding to student writing -- Using Portfolio -- Writing assessment beyond the classroom: Language and reality in writing assessment -- Assessing writing proficiency -- Selecting appropriate writing measures -- Organizing and managing holistic essay or portfolio readings -- Avoiding pitfalls in writing programs -- The Politics of assessment: past and future -- Resource A: Sample holistic scoring guide -- Resource B: Submission guidelines and scoring guidelines and scoring guide for portfolios -- Resource C: Guidelines for self- study to precede a writing program evaluation -- Resource D: Evaluation of the Writing-Across-the-curriculum program: Minnesota community college system.
096632336X (Calendar Islands pbk.)
98029704
English language--Composition and exercises--Ability testing.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
English language--Rhetoric--Ability testing.
Report writing--Study and teaching.
Report writing--Ability testing.
LB1576.W58
808/.042/071
Teaching and assessing writing: recent advances in understanding, evaluating, and improving student performance. / Edward M. White. - 2nd ed. rev. and expanded. - Portland, Me. : Calendar Islands Publishers, 1998. - xxii, 331 p.: ill.; 23 cm.
Originally published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325) and index.
Contents: Assesment - A Critical tool in the teaching of writing: Assessment as treat and promise -- Assessment and the design of writing assignments -- Using eassay tests -- How theories of reading affect response to writing -- Responding to student writing -- Using Portfolio -- Writing assessment beyond the classroom: Language and reality in writing assessment -- Assessing writing proficiency -- Selecting appropriate writing measures -- Organizing and managing holistic essay or portfolio readings -- Avoiding pitfalls in writing programs -- The Politics of assessment: past and future -- Resource A: Sample holistic scoring guide -- Resource B: Submission guidelines and scoring guidelines and scoring guide for portfolios -- Resource C: Guidelines for self- study to precede a writing program evaluation -- Resource D: Evaluation of the Writing-Across-the-curriculum program: Minnesota community college system.
096632336X (Calendar Islands pbk.)
98029704
English language--Composition and exercises--Ability testing.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
English language--Rhetoric--Ability testing.
Report writing--Study and teaching.
Report writing--Ability testing.
LB1576.W58
808/.042/071