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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971073203321

Autore

Adler-Kassner Linda

Titolo

Reframing writing assessment : to improve teaching and learning / / Linda Adler-Kassner, Peggy O'Neill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2010

ISBN

9780874217995

0874217997

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Classificazione

17.41

Altri autori (Persone)

O'NeillPeggy <1963->

Disciplina

808/.0420711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Grading and marking (Students)

Report writing - Evaluation

College prose - Evaluation

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Higher education, framing, and writing assessment -- Framing (and) American education -- The framing of composition and writing assessment -- Reframing strategies and techniques -- Reframing in action -- Reframing assessment : why does my participation matter? -- Reimagining writing assessment.

Sommario/riassunto

Adler-Kassner and O'Neill show writing faculty and administrators how to frame discussions of writing assessment so that they accurately represent research-based practices, and promote assessments that are valid, reliable, and discipline-appropriate.Public discourse about writing instruction is currently driven by ideas of what instructors and programs "need to do," "should do," or "are not doing," and is based on poorly informed concepts of correctness and unfounded claims about a broad decline in educational quality. This discussion needs to be reframed, say Adler-