Guide To College Writing Assessment

Author : Peggy O'Neill,Cindy Moore,Brian Huot
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874217339

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Guide to College Writing Assessment by Peggy O'Neill,Cindy Moore,Brian Huot Pdf

While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don’t have a clear understanding of the key concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and reliability, nor do they understand the statistical formulas associated with psychometrics. But understanding assessment theory—and applying it—by those who are not psychometricians is critical in developing useful, ethical assessments in college writing programs, and in interpreting and using assessment results. A Guide to College Writing Assessment is designed as an introduction and source book for WPAs, department chairs, teachers, and administrators. Always cognizant of the critical components of particular teaching contexts, O’Neill, Moore, and Huot have written sophisticated but accessible chapters on the history, theory, application and background of writing assessment, and they offer a dozen appendices of practical samples and models for a range of common assessment needs. Because there are numerous resources available to assist faculty in assessing the writing of individual students in particular classrooms, A Guide to College Writing Assessment focuses on approaches to the kinds of assessment that typically happen outside of individual classrooms: placement evaluation, exit examination, programmatic assessment, and faculty evaluation. Most of all, the argument of this book is that creating the conditions for meaningful college writing assessment hinges not only on understanding the history and theories informing assessment practice, but also on composition programs availing themselves of the full range of available assessment practices.

Author : Michael Rodriguez,Anthony Albano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317502012

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The College Instructor's Guide to Writing Test Items by Michael Rodriguez,Anthony Albano Pdf

The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields. By focusing on multiple-choice response items, this book provides college instructors the tools to understand, develop, and use assessment activities in classrooms in a way that consistently supports learning. Including dozens of example items and additional resources to support the item development process, this volume is unique in its practical-focus, and is essential reading for instructors and soon-to-be educators, professional development specialists, and higher education researchers. As teaching, assessment, and learning are inherently intertwined, The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items both facilitates the development of instructors’ own practice and improves the learning outcomes and success of students.

Author : Tara Lockhart,Mark Roberge
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781457689925

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Informed Choices by Tara Lockhart,Mark Roberge Pdf

Combining sound theory with rich hands-on activities, Informed Choices: A Guide for Teachers of College Writing is built on the premise that teaching writing is not about mastering a single best practice, but instead requires being responsive to a series of tradeoffs and paradoxes. Ideal for new TAs and experienced professors alike, it helps teachers navigate complex choices about course design, assessment, even professional growth—all within the context of trends in the field, institutional expectations, and their evolving pedagogical philosophies.

Author : Barbara E. Walvoord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118559185

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Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College by Barbara E. Walvoord Pdf

Step-by-step guidance for shaping better writers while keeping faculty workloads manageable Effective communication is a critical skill for many academic disciplines and careers, and so colleges and universities and their faculty members are rightfully committed to improving student writing across the curriculum. Guiding and assessing student writing in classrooms, general education, and departments takes knowledge, planning, and persistence, but it can be done effectively and efficiently. Written in the concise, accessible style Barbara Walvoord is known for, Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College: A Guide for Institutions, General Education, Departments, and Classrooms offers administrators, program chairs, general education leaders, and classroom instructors the guidance they need. The book provides concrete suggestions for how to: Articulate goals for student writing Measure student writing Improve student writing Document that improvement The book begins by addressing four basic concepts: what we mean by writing, what we mean by "good" writing, how students learn to write, and the purposes of assessment. Next, Walvoord explains the various approaches and methods for assessing writing, urging a combination of them adapted to the institution's purposes and political context. After this introduction, successive chapters offer realistic, practical advice to institution-wide and general education leaders, department members, and classroom instructors. Walvoord addresses issues such as how to engage faculty, how to use rubrics, how to aggregate assessment information at the department and institutional levels, and how to report assessment information to accreditors. The chapter for classroom instructors offers practical suggestions: how to add more writing to a course without substantially increasing the grading load; how to construct writing assignments, how to make grading and responding more effective and time-efficient, how to address grammar and punctuation, and how to support students whose native language is not English. The book also includes four helpful appendices: a taxonomy of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs; sample outlines for faculty development workshops; a student survey on teaching methods instructors can use to inform their choices in the classroom; and a student self-check cover sheet designed to help students take ownership of their own learning and responsibility for turning in complete, correct assignments. Practical, step-by-step guidance for each point in the assessment and improvement process creates a cohesive, institution-wide system that keeps students, faculty, and administrators on the same page.

Author : Sarah Beck
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807777329

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A Think-Aloud Approach to Writing Assessment by Sarah Beck Pdf

The think-aloud approach to classroom writing assessment is designed to expand teachers’ perspectives on adolescent students as writers and help them integrate instruction and assessment in a timely way. Emphasizing learning over evaluation, it is especially well-suited to revealing students’ strengths and helping them overcome common challenges to writing such as writer’s block or misunderstanding of the writing task. Through classroom examples, Sarah Beck describes how to implement the think-aloud method and shows how this method is flexible and adaptable to any writing assignment and classroom context. The book also discusses the significance of the method in relation to best practices in formative assessment, including how to plan think-aloud sessions with students to gain the most useful information. Teachers required to use rubrics or other standardized assessment tools can incorporate the more individualized think-aloud approach into their practice without sacrificing the rigor and consistency more regulated approaches require. “Details how both students and teachers can benefit from engaging in this practice, and does so in ways that allow readers to adapt it to their own situations.” —Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia “This is the first truly new way of thinking about assessing writing that I have encountered in a long time.” —Heidi L. Andrade, University at Albany–SUNY “An invaluable guide for using think-aloud formative assessments to gain insight into student writing development. Every high school and college writing instructor should read it!” —Amanda J. Godley, University of Pittsburgh

Author : Mya Poe,Asao B. Inoue,Norbert Elliot
Publisher : CSU Open Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 160732864X

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Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity by Mya Poe,Asao B. Inoue,Norbert Elliot Pdf

The first principled examination of social justice and the advancement of opportunity as the aim and consequence of writing assessment.

Author : Billie F. Birnie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475829501

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Assessing Writing by Billie F. Birnie Pdf

This book on assessing writing is designed for teachers, school leaders, and evaluators. It begins with a collection of assessment practices that will increase teachers' efficiency and effectiveness as they guide students in learning how to think and write successfully.

Author : Asao B. Inoue
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781602357754

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Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies by Asao B. Inoue Pdf

In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is “more than” its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning, Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant discourses in the academy and other contexts.

Author : Sheryl I. Fontaine,Cherryl Smith
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106019405981

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Writing Your Way Through College by Sheryl I. Fontaine,Cherryl Smith Pdf

Writing academic essays in college often seems mysterious to students who do not yet understand the process of developing an idea into a finished piece of reasoned prose. Writing Your Way Through College demystifies that process and enables teachers to help students "invent the university" as they reinvent themselves as proficient writers and rhetorical problem solvers. Writing Your Way Through College offers instructors a set of careful lessons that draw on current disciplinary knowledge in composition and rhetoric. Sheryl Fontaine and Cherryl Smith provide a classroom-centered text that guides students through progressively more complex, evidence-based writing. Writing Your Way Through College offers students and teachers: practical lessons on writing and learning a set of assignments that build incrementally a support system for new instructors accessible information about college writing a flexible approach to the classroom. In a concise, readable format, Writing Your Way Through College offers insights into how individuals negotiate language communities so that students can better master the conventions and rhetorical characteristics of academic writing. A creative and effective template for the teaching of writing, Writing Your Way Through College belongs on every shelf and in every classroom.

Author : Katie O. Arosteguy,Alison Bright,Brenda J. Rinard
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780807777954

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A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education by Katie O. Arosteguy,Alison Bright,Brenda J. Rinard Pdf

This concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing. The book moves from academic to professional writing and chapters include a discussion of relevant genres, mentor texts with salient features identified, visual aids, and exercises that ask students to apply their understanding of the concepts. Readers learn about the scholarly and qualitative research processes prevalent in the field of education and are encouraged to use writing to facilitate change that improves teaching and learning conditions. “At the heart of this book is a commitment to the value of teachers’ voices.” —From the Foreword by Mya Poe, director, Writing Program, Northeastern University “This book is one tool to help prospective educators embrace all the writing that is to come.” —Anne Elrod Whitney, Penn State College of Education “The authors know the questions students might ask and the places where they might misstep. The book is supportive, analytical, logically sequenced, clear, and student friendly.” —Tim Dewar, UC Santa Barbara

Author : Edward M. White,Norbert Elliot,Irvin Peckham
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874219869

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Very Like a Whale by Edward M. White,Norbert Elliot,Irvin Peckham Pdf

Winner of the 2015 CPTSC Award for Excellence in Program Assessment Written for those who design, redesign, and assess writing programs, Very Like a Whale is an intensive discussion of writing program assessment issues. Taking its title from Hamlet, the book explores the multifaceted forces that shape writing programs and the central role these programs can and should play in defining college education. Given the new era of assessment in higher education, writing programs must provide valid evidence that they are serving students, instructors, administrators, alumni, accreditors, and policymakers. This book introduces new conceptualizations associated with assessment, making them clear and available to those in the profession of rhetoric and composition/writing studies. It also offers strategies that aid in gathering information about the relative success of a writing program in achieving its identified goals. Philosophically and historically aligned with quantitative approaches, White, Elliot, and Peckham use case study and best-practice scholarship to demonstrate the applicability of their innovative approach, termed Design for Assessment (DFA). Well grounded in assessment theory, Very Like a Whale will be of practical use to new and seasoned writing program administrators alike, as well as to any educator involved with the accreditation process.

Author : Richard Haswell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313001437

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Beyond Outcomes by Richard Haswell Pdf

Writing assessment programs help place entering and mid-career students in composition courses at the appropriate level, monitor the progress of those students, and assist in placing them in writing courses throughout their undergraduate careers. These same universities also have writing instruction programs, which might include writing centers, writing-across-the-curriculum initiatives, and freshman and advanced composition programs. At many institutions, though, writing assessment is not necessarily considered fundamental to writing instruction, and there is little communication between the assessment program and the composition program. This book demonstrates that writing assessment and instruction programs may be successfully integrated. The contributors analyze the development of the writing assessment and instruction program at Washington State University, which is nationally recognized for its success. In doing so, they provide guidance to other institutions planning to develop similar integrated programs. The volume argues that writing assessment and instruction should inform and influence each other; that they should evolve together; and that they should be developed locally. By tracing the success of the WSU program, the authors directly challenge the use of national packaged assessment programs, such as standardized placement tests.

Author : Dudley W. Reynolds
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472034208

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Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning by Dudley W. Reynolds Pdf

The goals of this resource are broader than many standard books on writing assessment, which focus on evaluating an individual’s ability to create an effective piece of writing for a particular purpose. Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning seeks to support teachers, administrators, program directors, and funding entities who want to make the best use of the resources at their disposal to understand what students are learning and why and then take actions based on what they have learned. It also seeks to provide a common basis for communication among all the interested parties—the writing professionals, the people who identified the need for the program, and the students. The book has sections on planning, tools (different ways of collecting data and links to instruments), and reporting (examples provided). Each section includes a discussion of issues and advice for working through the issue along with numerous examples, plus a list of resources to consult to learn more. The final chapter provides worksheets that may be reproduced and used to help those in charge of setting up and delivering a writing program to think through the issues presented. A glossary of terms is also included.

Author : Duane H Roen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1264115040

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The McGraw-Hill Guide by Duane H Roen Pdf

Author : Lester Faigley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 0321993802

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Writing by Lester Faigley Pdf

NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab(tm) does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: 0134070038 / 9780134070032 Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133954706 / 9780133954708 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card 0321993802 / 9780321993809 Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond MyWritingLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. For college courses in Composition and Rhetoric. Revealing the writing process through interactive learning Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond presents writing, reading, and research processes dynamically, using a variety of visuals to illustrate how readers interact with texts and how writers compose. One of the first textbook authors to focus on multimedia composing, Lester Faigley employs his own advice to engage students in every step of the writing process-for both college composition and everyday life-and pulls back the curtain on how writers work. Aligned with the learning goals for a first-year college writing course identified in the 2014 Outcomes Statement from the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond gives students the support they need to succeed in first-year composition, in their other courses, and in their careers. In the Fourth Edition, students can also practice and explore what they've learned chapter-by-chapter with interactive MyWritingLab tools, assignments and projects. Also available with MyWritingLab(tm) This text is also available with MyWritingLab(tm) - an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.