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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213827003321

Autore

Lynne Patricia <1964->

Titolo

Coming to terms : theorizing writing assessment in composition studies / / Patricia Lynne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786613267054

9781283267052

1283267055

9780874214826

0874214823

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/0712

Soggetti

English language - Composition and exercises - Evaluation

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Secondary)

English language - Rhetoric - Evaluation

Constructivism (Education)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Large-scale writing assessment practices and the influence of objectivity -- Contemporary literacy scholarship and the value of context -- Wrestling with positivism -- Theory under construction -- The politics of theorizing -- Theorizing writing assessment -- Theory in practice.

Sommario/riassunto

In a provocative book-length essay, Patricia Lynne argues that most programmatic assessment of student writing in U.S. public and higher education is conceived in the terms of mid-20th century positivism. Since composition as a field had found its most compatible home in constructivism, she asks, why do compositionists import a conceptual frame for assessment that is incompatible with composition theory? By casting this as a clash of paradigms, Lynne is able to highlight the ways in which each theory can and cannot influence the shape of assessment within composition. She lament