Title: Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning: A Practical Guide for Evaluating and Reporting on Writing Instruction Programs
Abstract: Most of the books concerned with writing assessment focus mainly on evaluating the learners’ ability to produce an effective piece of writing which complies with the conventions of a specific discourse community. Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning offers a more holistic approach to writing assessment that seeks to assess and evaluate the whole learning process in order to provide teachers, administrators, program directors and funding entities with tools to help them make the most of the resources at their disposal and take actions to improve their writing programs. This global assessment approach addresses the following main premises: planning for assessment should be an integral part of a program design, both formative and summative ends should be taken into account, the selection and reporting of assessment tools should be carefully chosen, multiple types of data should be collected, the consequences of assessment findings should be considered and their actual use monitored. Based on these premises, the book is divided into five chapters which include practices and examples that provide support to these guiding principles.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-07
Language: en
Type: book
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