By Carl Whithaus
Teaching and comparing Writing within the Age of pcs and High-Stakes Testing serves this twin want through supplying a theoretical framework, real case stories, and functional tools for comparing pupil writing. through studying concerns in writing assessment--ranging from the improvement of digital portfolios to the impression of state-wide, standards-based overview equipment on secondary and post-secondary courses--this publication discovers 4 located thoughts of actual review which are already in use at a couple of locales through the usa. those concepts stress:
*interacting with scholars as communicators utilizing synchronous and asynchronous environments;
*describing the techniques and items of pupil studying instead of enumerating deficits;
*situating pedagogy and review inside structures that include instead of exclude neighborhood variables; and
*distributing overview between different audiences.
By advocating for a versatile approach of communication-based evaluate in computer-mediated writing guide, this ebook validates lecturers' and scholars' stories with writing and in addition recognizes the real-world weight of the hot writing elements at the SAT and ACT, in addition to on state-mandated standardized writing and talent exams.
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