Assessing Writing to Support Learning: Turning Accountability Inside Out

ISBN-13: 9781032268095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 200 str.

Peggy O'Neill

Opis

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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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