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Best Practices In Writing Assessment For Instruction, Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller
Best Practices In Writing Assessment For Instruction, Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller
Education Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Our assignment in this chapter is to discuss best practices in writing assessment, a task that poses a twofold challenge for teachers-first, the task of providing authentic opportunities for students to acquire skill in writing while covering an ever-increasing array of other curriculum demands; second, the overriding pressures to ensure that students perform well on the standardized tests that have become the primary accountability index. As we complete this chapter, few state testing systems rely to any significant degree on performance tests for measuring student achievement. Multiple-choice tests dominate, and on-demand writing tests (including the SAT) generally contravene the counsel …
Best Practices In Writing Assessment, Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller
Best Practices In Writing Assessment, Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller
Education Faculty Books and Book Chapters
Our assignment in this chapter is to discuss best practices in writing assessment, a task that poses a twofold challenge for teachers-first, the task of providing authentic opportunities for students to acquire skill in writing while covering an ever-increasing array of other curriculum demands; second, the overriding pressures to ensure that students perform well on the standardized tests that have become the primary accountability index. As we complete this chapter, few state testing systems rely to any significant degree on performance tests for measuring student achievement. Multiple-choice tests dominate, and on-demand writing tests (including the SAT) generally contravene the counsel …