Sandra Murphy, Peggy O'Neill

Assessing Writing to Support Learning (eBook, PDF)

Turning Accountability Inside Out

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Murphy and O'Neill examine the landscape of high-stakes, test-based writing curriculum and assessment and propose a new way forward that centers student learning and success. The authors demonstrate how a test-based approach to accountability and current practices have undermined effective teaching and learning of writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000775433
• Artikelnr.: 65658498

Autorenporträt

Sandra Murphy is Professor Emerita at University of California, Davis, USA.

Peggy O'Neill is Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Why Do We Need to Remodel Our Accountability and
Assessment Systems and Why Now? What do we mean by assessment? How have
high-stakes accountability policies impacted writing curriculum? 2. What Do
Assessment Concepts Tell Us about the Limitations of Traditional Approaches
to the Large-Scale Assessment of Writing? Reliability Validity Implications
for rebuilding the system 3. How Have Theories of Writing and Learning
Evolved? Conceptions of writing: Shifting toward the social Conceptions of
writing: Emphasizing the social context Conceptions of learning: Shifting
toward the social Implications of contemporary conceptions of writing and
learning for the teaching of writing 4. Redesigning Assessments to Support
Learning and Align with a Complex Cognitive and Social Construct of Writing
Using assessment to promote learning Assessing a complex cognitive and
socially situated construct of writing in large-scale systems Designing
performance assessments and portfolios to support learning Taking social
perspectives on learning, accountability, and assessment 5. Redesigning and
Renovating Writing Assessment: Engaging Teachers and Students Investing in
teachers and students Investing in teachers' professional development
Involving teachers in the development and scoring of assessments
Encouraging collaboration across different levels of the system Supporting
and reinforcing the teacher's role in formative assessment Turning
accountability inside out 6. An Ecological Approach to Writing Assessment
Ecology in writing studies Writing assessment ecologies Ecological validity
Taking an ecological approach to assessment