Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Assessing Writing to Support Learning

Turning Accountability Inside Out

Av Sandra Murphy, Peggy O'Neill

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Beskrivning

In this book, authors Murphy and O’Neill propose a new way forward, moving away from high-stakes, test-based writing assessment and the curriculum it generates and toward an approach to assessment that centers on student learning and success. Reviewing the landscape of writing assessment and existing research-based theories on writing, the authors demonstrate how a test-based approach to accountability and current practices have undermined effective teaching and learning of writing. This book bridges the gap between real-world writing that takes place in schools, college, and careers and the writing that students are asked to do in standardized writing assessments to offer a new ecological approach to writing assessment.Murphy and O’Neill’s new way forward turns accountability inside out to help teachers understand the role of formative assessments and assessment as inquiry. It also brings the outside in, by bridging the gap between authentic writing and writing assessment. Through these two strands, readers learn how assessment systems can be restructured to become better aligned with contemporary understandings of writing and with best practices in teaching. With examples of assessments from elementary school through college, chapters include guidance on designing assessments to address multiple kinds of writing, integrate reading with writing, and incorporate digital technology and multimodality. Emphasizing the central role that teachers play in systemic reform, the authors offer sample assessments developed with intensive teacher involvement that support learning and provide information for the evaluation of programs and schools.This book is an essential resource for graduate students, instructors, scholars and policymakers in writing assessment, composition, and English education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2022-11-08
Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt: 420 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 202
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781032282893

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Sandra Murphy is Professor Emerita at University of California, Davis, USA.Peggy O’Neill is Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland, USA.

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"Sandra Murphy and Peggy O’Neill take up an ambitious and important task: explaining the need for, and the ways to design, ecologically sound writing assessments that support students. Writing assessment itself, they argue, can provide a learning moment, one large-scale K-12 systems currently squander. Murphy and O’Neill also make the case that the definition, or construct, of writing informing standardized tests is out of sync with both current definitions of writing and everyday writing practices like digital multimodal writing and collaborative writing. We can do better, Murphy and O’Neill argue, and invoking ecological models of writing and of assessment, they show us how to begin. This book will be essential reading for stakeholders interested in writing assessment, including teachers, assessment practitioners, researchers, and policymakers."--Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg Hunt Professor and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Florida State University, USA"This essential text for secondary and college writing instructors offers a fresh perspective by examining the complexity of writing instruction, its history, and the effects of high-stakes testing, all viewed through the lens of meaningful assessment."--Barbara A. Ward, Children's and Young Adult Literature Instructor, University of New Orleans, USA"An essential addition to the literature on writing assessment and a must-read for scholars working in writing studies, writing assessment, the teaching of writing, and the administration of writing programs." –Chris M. Anson, Distinguished University Professor, Executive Director, Campus Writing and Speaking Program, North Carolina State University, USA

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